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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Tribe Apomecynini

Ashen Bycid - Dorcasta cinerea Adetaptera wickhami (Schaeffer) - Adetaptera wickhami Cerambycidae - Dorcasta ? - Dorcasta cinerea Dorcasta cinerea (Horn) - Dorcasta cinerea Dorcasta cinerea (Horn) - Dorcasta cinerea 829W05 Dorcasta cinerea - Dorcasta cinerea Adetus brousi - Adetus brousii Dorcasta cinerea on dried silverleaf nightshade leaf - Dorcasta cinerea
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)
Tribe Apomecynini
Explanation of Names
Apomecynini Thomson 1860
Numbers
6 spp. in 4 genera in our area, 320 spp. in 44 genera in the New World(1), almost 1,800 spp. in ~250 genera worldwide(2)
Range
pantropical group (esp. rich in SE Asia & Australia) barely represented in NA (only in so. US)(1)(2)