Subject: BBB – Big Black Beetle
Geographic location of the bug: Upper part of South Carolina
Date: 06/28/2021
Time: 12:09 AM EDT
Your letter to the bugman: Found this bug on my back porch at night under a light. Had some scary looking chompers. Can you identify?
How you want your letter signed: Anthony Kozakiewicz
Hardwood Stump Borer
Dear Anthony,
We feel confident that this is a Hardwood Stump Borer, Mallodon dasystomus, which is pictured on BugGuide. According to Beetles of Eastern North America by Arthur V. Evans: “Mandibles nearly horizontal” while of the similar looking Live Oak Root Borer, Archodontes melanoplus, the author writes: “Mandibles nearly vertical.”
Hardwood Stump Borer
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