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Species Ecyrus dasycerus

Flat-faced Longhorn Beetle - Ecyrus dasycerus

Unknown Long-horned beetle - Ecyrus dasycerus

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 Lamiinae (Flat-faced Longhorn Beetles)

Tribe Pogonocherini

Genus Ecyrus

Species dasycerus (Ecyrus dasycerus)

Explanation of Names

Ecyrus dasycerus (Say 1826)

dasycerus 'having hairy antennae'

Numbers

2 sspp. in our area(1)

Size

4‒10 mm(2)

Identification

Variable in size and color, but the combination of body shape and the dark, inverted arc-like (although sometimes faint) marking at the elytral base is distinctive among eastern longhorns(2)

Range

e.NA: QC‒ON‒e.NE to FL‒TX to Mexico(1)

Food

variety of hardwoods, esp. oak and hackberry(2)(3)

Remarks

comes to lights(2)

Works Cited

1.	Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Col.) of Canada and United States of America, Parts I‒IV Monné M.A., Nearns E.H. 2023. Available from https://cerambycids.com/catalog/.

2.	Field Guide to Northeastern Longhorned Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) Douglas Yanega. 1996. Illinois Natural History Survey.

3.	Illustrated Key to the Longhorned Woodboring Beetles of the Eastern United States Steven W. Lingafelter. 2008. Coleopterists Society.

Contributed by Matthew Roth on 4 July, 2006 - 10:50am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 9 April, 2024 - 8:18pm

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