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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) » Spondylidinae » Atimiini » Atimia » Small Cedar Borer (Atimia confusa)

Species Atimia confusa - Small Cedar Borer

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited
Cerambycidae - Atimia confusa Cerambycid - Atimia confusa Atimia confusa Blue Lake - Beetle 2 - Atimia confusa Blue Lake - Beetle 2 - Atimia confusa Unknown beetle - Atimia confusa Unknown beetle - Atimia confusa Long-horned Beetle - Atimia confusa
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 Spondylidinae
Tribe Atimiini
Genus Atimia
Species confusa (Small Cedar Borer)
Other Common Names
Small Cedar-bark Borer (1)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Atimia confusa (Say)
Orig. Comb: Tanymecus confusus Say 1826
Syn: tristis Haldeman
Numbers
5 spp. n. of Mex. (2)
Size
6-9 mm (1)
Range
e US (TX-FL-ME-MI), CA-BC / n. Mex. - Map (3)(4)
Season
spring through fall (4)
Food
On Juniperus, Cupressus, Taxodium, Thuja, Chamaecyparis (5)
Life Cycle
Adults appear in early spring and also in early fall, laying their eggs under bark scales. The larvae feed entirely between the bark and wood, packing frass behind them. Pupation occurs in cells in the sapwood.(6)

Overwinter as larvae or adults(6)
Remarks
comes to lights (1)
Internet References
Cerambycidae Catalog
Works Cited
1.Field Guide to Northeastern Longhorned Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
Douglas Yanega. 1996. Illinois Natural History Survey.
2.New World Cerambycidae Catalog
3.A Distributional Checklist of the Beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida
4.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
5.Illustrated Key to the Longhorned Woodboring Beetles of the Eastern United States
Steven W. Lingafelter. 2008. Coleopterists Society.
6.Eastern Forest Insects
Whiteford L. Baker. 1972. U.S. Department of Agriculture · Forest Service.
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 12 December, 2009 - 11:03am
Additional contributions by v belov, Marci Hess
Last updated 28 July, 2023 - 3:22pm

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