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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 » Trachyderini » Trachyderina » Tragidion

Genus Tragidion

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Range · Remarks · Works Cited
Tragidion - Tragidion deceptum - female Tragidion sp. - Tragidion densiventre - male long horned beetle? - Tragidion - male Tragidion deceptum Swift & Ray - Tragidion deceptum - male Tragidion densiventre Casey - Tragidion densiventre - male 2.5cm longhorn species? - Tragidion Longhorned Beetle - Tragidion coquus - - Tragidion coquus
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 Trachyderini
Subtribe Trachyderina
Genus Tragidion
Numbers
8 spp. in our area, 11 spp. total(1)
Identification
Most spp. are morphologically similar and hard to identify; species boundaries remain indistinct. Habitus similar to other genera of this tribe, incl. Purpuricenus, Metaleptus, etc.(2)
Range
much of NA to Honduras(2)
Remarks
Adults of one or both sexes are usually bright orange in color and mimic pompilid wasps in the genera Pepsis and Hemipepsis (2)
Works Cited
1.A Photographic Catalog of the Cerambycidae of the New World
2.A review of the genus Tragidion Audinet-Serville, 1834 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae: Trachyderini)
By I. Swift, A.M. Ray
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 25 August, 2005 - 11:40am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 6 December, 2011 - 11:38am

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