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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Long-horned and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Longhorned Beetles (Cerambycidae) » Cerambycinae » Agallissini » Agallissus » Agallissus lepturoides

Species Agallissus lepturoides

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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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
Tribe Agallissini
Genus Agallissus
Species lepturoides (Agallissus lepturoides)
Other Common Names
Adorned Texas Palm Bycid
Explanation of Names
Agallissus
agall is Greek for adorn (1)
Numbers
There are two species in Agallissus, but only Agallissus lepturoides reaches the United States.
Identification
Unmistakable...
Range
Sabal Palm Audubon Center, Cameron County, Texas south to Honduras
Food
Hosts in the petioles of Sabal mexicana
Remarks
"This exotic [looking] species has been listed from Texas several times, but we have been unable to locate or collect any U.S. material." (Hovore et al. 1987).

"This species ranges from Central America into Texas and may occur into coastal Arkansas [!?] and Louisiana. Adults active from April-June. No larval hosts have been reported in the literature." (Lingafelter, 2007) (2)
Print References
Hovore, F.T., R.L. Penrose & R.W. Neck. 1987. The Cerambycidae, or longhorned beetles, of southern Texas: a faunal survey (Coleoptera). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 44(13): 283-334, 20 figs.
Internet References
Photo & Factsheet - Texas Entomology

Genus Agallissus - Cerambycidae Catalog
Works Cited
1.Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms
By Donald J. Borror
2.Illustrated Key to the Longhorned Woodboring Beetles of the Eastern United States
By Steven W. Lingafelter
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 7 March, 2009 - 11:48pm
Last updated 9 March, 2009 - 1:18pm

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