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Tribe Parmenini

Cute Little Beetle - Plectrura spinicauda

Small Oregon Longhorn - Plectrura spinicauda

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 Parmenini

Explanation of Names

Parmenini Mulsant 1839

Numbers

3 spp. in 3 genera in our area, ~30 spp. in 20 genera in the New World(1), ~250 spp. in >80 genera worldwide(2)

Range

3/4 of the world fauna are Australasian, with another 50+ spp. between the Neotropics & Palaearctic and just a few elsewhere(2); in our area, TX-CA-AK(1)

Works Cited

1.	New World Cerambycidae Catalog

2.	Roguet J.-P. (2013) Lamiaires du Monde (Coleoptera Cerambycidae Lamiinae)

Contributed by Chuck Entz on 9 February, 2008 - 12:52am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 1 March, 2015 - 5:53pm

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