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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 » Eburiini » Eburia » Ivory-marked Beetle (Eburia quadrigeminata)

Species Eburia quadrigeminata - Ivory-marked Beetle

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Ivory-Marked Beetle - Eburia quadrigeminata

Ivory-Spotted Longhorn - Eburia quadrigeminata

Eburia quadrigeminata (Say) - Eburia quadrigeminata

Cerambycidae, ventral - Eburia quadrigeminata

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 Eburiini

Genus Eburia

Species quadrigeminata (Ivory-marked Beetle)

Other Common Names

Four-marked Ash Borer

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Orig. Comb: Stenocorus quadrigeminatus Say 1827

Size

12-25 mm (1)

Identification

Eburia quadrigeminata (Say)

Det. M. A. Quinn, 2011

Range

TX-FL-NY-MN (2), introduced in Cuba and Argentina (3)(4)

Habitat

Deciduous forests

Season

April-September (Northeast)(1); thru October (NC)(5)

Mostly Jun-Aug (per pix posted here)

Food

hosts include a wide variety of hardwoods (oak, ash, hickory, locust, chestnut, maple, elm, beech, cherry); larvae bore in heartwood(4);

adults come to bait traps and perhaps feed on rotting fruit, nectar(1)

Life Cycle

Notorious for emerging from furniture after as many as 10-40 yrs (1)(4)

Delayed emergence of E. quadrigeminata was discovered from a birch bookcase 40 years old (Jaques 1918).

Remarks

Attracted to lights (1)

See Also

Eburia haldemani LeConte might be a synonym of E. quadrigeminata (6)

Print References

Jaques, H.E. 1918. A long-life wood-boring beetle. Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci. 25: 175.

Internet References

Cerambycidae Catalog

Works Cited

1.	Field Guide to Northeastern Longhorned Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) By Douglas Yanega

2.	A distributional checklist of the beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida By Peck & Thomas. 1998.

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

4.	The genus Eburia Audinet-Serville in Florida (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) By Michael C. Thomas

5.	Insects of North Carolina By C.S. Brimley

6.	Illustrated Key to the Longhorned Woodboring Beetles of the Eastern United States By Steven W. Lingafelter

Contributed by Cotinis on 21 March, 2004 - 9:32pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 25 May, 2011 - 9:58pm

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