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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Longhorn Beetles (Cerambycidae) » Flat-faced Longhorn Beetles (Lamiinae) » Pteropliini

Tribe Pteropliini

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Works Cited
Bisaltes tibialis (Schaeffer) - Bisaltes tibialis - male Longhorned Beetle - Ataxia crypta Beetle to blacklight - Ataxia Ataxia - Ataxia hubbardi Ataxia? reared from dead stems of Helianthus annuus - Ataxia hubbardi Longhorn beetle - Ataxia Ataxia crypta? - Ataxia Ataxia crypta
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 Pteropliini
Explanation of Names
Pteropliini Thomson 1860
Numbers
8 spp. in a single genus in our area, ~120 spp. in 18 genera in the New World(1), >2,060 spp. in >280 genera worldwide(2)
Range
pantropical (mostly palaeotropical, esp. Oriental) group with just 90 spp. in the holarctic region, of which just a few in NA(2); in our area, so. US, with 1 sp. ranging north to MN(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 - 12:59am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 1 March, 2015 - 5:54pm

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