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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) » Flat-faced Longhorn Beetles (Lamiinae) » Phytoeciini » Oberea

Genus Oberea

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Works Cited

Dogwood Twig Borer, dorsal - Oberea tripunctata

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 Phytoeciini

Genus Oberea

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

treated by some workers in a tribe of its own (Obereiini) [e.g. in(1)]

Explanation of Names

Oberea Mulsant 1839

Numbers

17 spp. in the New World, all in the nominate subgenus and all in our area(2), ~330 spp. in 2 subgenera total(3)

Size

7-21 mm(4)

Identification

body long and slender; head, thorax, and abdomen all about same width, and elytra not tapered - giving an overall rod-shaped appearance to the body

northeastern spp. treated in detail in(4)

Range

2/3 of spp. in Eurasia; ~70, in Africa(3); in our area, e. NA west to the Rocky Mtns.(5)(6), except for the non-native O. erythrocephala established in the west(4)

Season

Apr-Sep(6)

Food

Larvae are live stem borers and feed mostly on hardwoods, but also some herbaceous plants(6)

Life Cycle

See(7)

Works Cited

1.	Checklist of the Oxypeltidae, Vesperidae, Disteniidae and Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Western Hemisphere Bezark L.G., Monné M.A. 2013. 470 pp.

2.	New World Cerambycidae Catalog

3.	Roguet J.-P. (2013) Lamiaires du Monde (Coleoptera Cerambycidae Lamiinae)

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

5.	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.

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

7.	Guide to insect borers in North American broadleaf trees and shrubs Solomon, J.D. 1995. USDA Forest Service Agriculture Handbook. 735 pp.

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 12 March, 2005 - 7:33am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Phillip Harpootlian, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 26 June, 2023 - 7:02pm

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