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Subfamily Lamiinae - Flat-faced Longhorn Beetles

Longhorned beetle - Hippopsis lemniscata soldier beetle? - Oberea tripunctata Imaging a gray longhorn, on hood of a gray car under bright sunshine ... - Dectes texanus Flat-faced Longhorn? Astylidius? - Sternidius Tetraopes thermophilus Chevrolat - Tetraopes thermophilus longhorn beetle - Astylopsis sexguttata Longhorn beetle unknown - Saperda vestita Longhorn Beetle - Urgleptes querci
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)
Explanation of Names
Lamiinae Latreille 1825
Numbers
an exceptionally large group: with ~250 spp. in ~50 genera of 20 tribes in our area, almost 5,000 spp. in >800 genera of ~40 tribes in the New World(1), and >20,000 spp. in >3,000 genera of ~80 tribes worldwide(2)
Identification
face rather vertical, terminal maxillary palpomere pointed(3)
Range
worldwide, by far most diverse in the tropics(2)
Print References
(4)
Works Cited
1.New World Cerambycidae Catalog
2.Roguet J.-P. (2013) Lamiaires du Monde (Coleoptera Cerambycidae Lamiinae)
3.Borror and DeLong's Introduction to the Study of Insects
Norman F. Johnson, Charles A. Triplehorn. 2004. Brooks Cole.
4.The Cerambycidae of North America, Part VII, No. 2: ... subfamily Lamiinae, tribes Acanthocinini through Hemilophini.
E. Gorton Linsley & John A. Chemsak. 1995. University of California Publications in Entomology 114: 1-292.
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 8 April, 2005 - 7:14am
Additional contributions by Tony DiTerlizzi, Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, Nick Block, v belov, PaleoJon
Last updated 18 March, 2022 - 6:13pm

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