Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
Clickable Guide
Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar
Upcoming Events

Photos of insects and people from the 2024 BugGuide gathering in Idaho July 24-27

Moth submissions from National Moth Week 2024

Photos of insects and people from the 2022 BugGuide gathering in New Mexico, July 20-24

Photos of insects and people from the Spring 2021 gathering in Louisiana, April 28-May 2

Photos of insects and people from the 2019 gathering in Louisiana, July 25-27

Photos of insects and people from the 2018 gathering in Virginia, July 27-29


Previous events


TaxonomyBrowse
Info
ImagesLinksBooksData

Subfamily Cerambycinae

? - Eburia quadrigeminata  Brothylus gemmulatus? - Brothylus gemmulatus What is this yellow striped bug? - Neoclytus acuminatus 0610 - Atylostagma politum Longhorn Beetle - Enaphalodes rufulus Semanotus amplus longhorn beetle - Anelaphus pumilus longhorn - Rhopalophora meeskei
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
Explanation of Names
Cerambycinae Latreille 1802
Numbers
an exceptionally large and diverse group, with ~440 spp. in ~160 genera of 37 tribes in our area and almost 4,500 spp. in 835 genera of 66 tribes in the New World(1); 110 tribes worldwide(2)
Identification
A combination of characters usually distinguishes Cerambycinae from other subfamilies: last segment of the maxillary palp blunt; face held slanting forward or nearly vertical; pronotum rounded and widest near the middle. Some groups have spines on elytral apices; in Elaphidini antennae with prominent spines. (based on Guy Hanley's comments)
Range
worldwide
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.Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)
Bouchard P, Bousquet Y, Davies A, Alonso-Zarazaga M, Lawrence JF, Lyal CH, Newton A, Reid CA, Schmitt M, Ślipiński SA, Smith A. 2011. ZooKeys 88: 1–972.