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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 · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Ivory-marked Beetle - Eburia quadrigeminata

Type of Beetle - has wings - is this a type of Urographis????? - 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

Size

12-25 mm

Identification

Distinctive ivory-white marks on elytra.

Range

Southern/eastern Canada, Eastern United States

Habitat

Deciduous forests

Season

Spring-Summer. April-September (Northeast). June-July (August, September?), October (North Carolina).

Food

Adults atrracted to bait (fruit?) traps, so perhaps feed on rotting fruit, nectar (1).

Life Cycle

Larvae bore into heartwood of deciduous trees, esp. ash, hickory. May emerge from finished lumber years after milling. (1)

Print References

Yanega, plate 13 (1)

Arnett (2)

Dillon, plate LIX. (3)

Deyrup, photo on page 110 (4)

Papp, fig. 701. (5)

Salsbury, p. 220--photo (6)

Brimley, p. 210 (7)

Internet References

This is the only species for the genus collected in North Carolina in the: NCSU entomology collection

Oklahoma Wild Things

Works Cited

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

2.	American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico By Ross H. Arnett

3.	A Manual of Common Beetles of Eastern North America By Dillon, Elizabeth S., and Dillon, Lawrence

4.	Florida's Fabulous Insects By Mark Deyrup, Brian Kenney, Thomas C. Emmel

5.	Introduction to North American Beetles By Charles S. Papp

6.	Insects in Kansas By Glenn A. Salsbury and Stephan C. White

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

Contributed by Cotinis on 21 March, 2004 - 9:32pm
Last updated 5 July, 2005 - 8:17pm

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