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Subfamily Lamiinae - Flat-faced Longhorn Beetles

Large Longhorn Beetle - Monochamus notatus Cerambycidae? - Spalacopsis texana Insect on red spiderling plant - Spalacopsis stolata 160228C08 - Sternidius alpha Monochamus obtusus - female Beetle for ID - Lepturges confluens Whitespotted Sawyer - Monochamus scutellatus March-0BG.J.2011.14 - Ecyrus dasycerus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Chrysomeloidea (Longhorn and Leaf Beetles)
Family Cerambycidae (Longhorn Beetles)
Subfamily Lamiinae (Flat-faced Longhorn Beetles)
Explanation of Names
Lamiinae Latreille 1825
Numbers
an exceptionally large group: with ~250 spp. in ~50 genera of 20 tribes in our area, almost 5,000 spp. in >800 genera of ~40 tribes in the New World(1), and >20,000 spp. in >3,000 genera of ~80 tribes worldwide(2)
Identification
face rather vertical, terminal maxillary palpomere pointed(3)
Range
worldwide, by far most diverse in the tropics(2)
Print References
(4)
Works Cited
1.New World Cerambycidae Catalog
2.Roguet J.-P. (2013) Lamiaires du Monde (Coleoptera Cerambycidae Lamiinae)
3.Borror and DeLong's Introduction to the Study of Insects
Norman F. Johnson, Charles A. Triplehorn. 2004. Brooks Cole.
4.The Cerambycidae of North America, Part VII, No. 2: ... subfamily Lamiinae, tribes Acanthocinini through Hemilophini.
E. Gorton Linsley & John A. Chemsak. 1995. University of California Publications in Entomology 114: 1-292.