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Species Trichoferus campestris - Velvet Longhorned Beetle

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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 Cerambycinae
Tribe Hesperophanini
Genus Trichoferus
Species campestris (Velvet Longhorned Beetle)
Explanation of Names
Trichoferus campestris (Faldermann 1835)
Range
native to, and widespread across e. Palaearctic (west to w. Russia), adventive in NA (QC)(1)
Food
polyphagous, recorded from ~40 genera of woody conifers and angiosperms(1)
Life Cycle
2 or more years(1)
Remarks
earliest record in our area: QC 2002(1)
Internet References
fact sheet(2)
Works Cited
1.Trichoferus campestris (Faldermann) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), an Asian wood-boring beetle recorded in North America
Grebennikov V.V., Gill B.D., Vigneault R. 2010. The Coleopterists Bulletin 64(1): 13–20.
2.Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey (CAPS) resource and collaboration site
Contributed by v belov on 26 February, 2014 - 6:56pm

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