Subfamily Cerambycinae

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited

Long horned beetle - Elaphidion mucronatum

Arrowhead Borer? - Xylotrechus sagittatus

Longhorned Beetle - Xylotrechus sagittatus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles)

Superfamily Chrysomeloidea (Long-horned and Leaf Beetles)

Family Cerambycidae (Longhorned Beetles)

Subfamily Cerambycinae

Numbers

an exceptionally large and diverse group, with ~440 spp. in ~160 genera of 37 tribes in our area and almost 4,500 spp. in 835 genera of 66 tribes in the New World(1) (>100 tribes worldwide)

Identification

A combination of characters usually distinguishes Cerambycinae from other subfamilies: last segment of the maxillary palp blunt; face held slanting forward or nearly vertical; pronotum rounded and widest near the middle. Some groups have spines on elytral apices; in Elaphidini antennae with prominent spines. (based on Guy Hanley's comments)

Range

worldwide

Works Cited

1.	Checklist of the Cerambycidae and related families (Coleoptera) of the Western Hemisphere By M.A. Monné, L.G. Bezark

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 8 April, 2005 - 7:14am
Additional contributions by cotinis, v belov
Last updated 1 December, 2011 - 12:59pm

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