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Genus Goes

Goes pulverulentus - female Living-hickory Borer - Goes pulcher Goes tigrinus - male Unknown Longhorn Beetle - Goes tesselatus unknown insect - Goes tigrinus long horn beetle? - Goes variegatus March-0BG.J.2011.10 - Goes tigrinus Unknown beetle - Goes variegatus
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 Monochamini
Genus Goes
Other Common Names
Goes Borers
Explanation of Names
Goes LeConte 1852
Numbers
9 spp. in the New World, all in our area(1); 3 spp. reach Canada(2)
Size
14-35 mm
Range
e. NA north to QC-ON, west to w. TX(3)(1)(2)
Season
typically May-Sep
Life Cycle
Typically twig girdlers or stem borers(4)
Works Cited
1.New World Cerambycidae Catalog
2.Bousquet Y., ed. (1991) Checklist of the beetles of Canada and Alaska
3.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
4.Guide to insect borers in North American broadleaf trees and shrubs
Solomon, J.D. 1995. USDA Forest Service Agriculture Handbook. 735 pp.
Contributed by Cotinis on 26 August, 2004 - 9:23am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 12 February, 2013 - 2:46pm

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