Purpuricenus
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Purpuricenus linsleyi
Purpuricenus linsleyi is a rare longhorned beetle species in the family Cerambycidae, described by John Chemsak in 1961. The species was originally known only from the holotype and one paratype from Texas, and was later rediscovered in the Texas hill country by Dan Heffern. It belongs to a genus of large, showy beetles with velvety black bodies and vivid red or orange elytral markings. The species can be confused with P. humeralis due to similar elytral patterning, but differs in having the posterior margin of the basal elytral markings more or less transverse rather than distinctly oblique.