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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 » Trachyderes » Trachyderes mandibularis

Species Trachyderes mandibularis

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Trachyderes? - Trachyderes mandibularis - female

Trachideres mandibularis - Trachyderes mandibularis

Long-jawed Longhorn - - Trachyderes mandibularis

unusual markings - Trachyderes mandibularis

Trachyderes mandibularis (Audinet-Serville) - Trachyderes mandibularis

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 Trachyderes

Species mandibularis (Trachyderes mandibularis)

Other Common Names

Long-jawed Longhorn Beetle

Explanation of Names

Males have particularly long mandibles

Numbers

1 sp. n. of Mex. (1)

Size

17-32 mm

Identification

Unit Tray of Spmns - Mike Quinn

Range

CA-LA, so. FL / Mex. to Honduras (2),(3)

Season

Mar-Oct (most specimens in the TAMU Insect Collection Jul-Sep)

Food

Hosts: Citrus, Parkinsonia, Salix (4), Celtis (Hovore et al. 1987)

Print References

Goldsmith, S.K. 1985. Male dimorphism in Dendrobias mandibularis Audinet-Serville (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 58: 534-538.

Goldsmith, S.K. 1987. The mating system and alternative reproductive behaviors of Dendrobias mandibularis (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 20: 111-115.

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

Fact sheets by Mike Quinn, M.C. Thomas

Cerambycidae Catalog

Works Cited

1.	American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea By Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.)

2.	A Photographic Catalog of the Cerambycidae of the New World

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

4.	The Cerambycidae of North America. Part III. ...subfamily Cerambycinae, tribes Opsimini through Megaderini By E.G. Linsley

Contributed by Jim McClarin on 9 February, 2006 - 5:21am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Maury Heiman, v belov
Last updated 1 May, 2012 - 4:01am

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