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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Cucujiformia » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Longhorn Beetles (Cerambycidae) » Cerambycinae » Oemini » Oemina » Oeme » Oeme rigida

Species Oeme rigida

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited
Oeme rigida Psyrassa? - Oeme rigida Oeme rigida? - Oeme rigida Unidentified Long Horn Beetle - Oeme rigida Cypress longhorn beetle - Oeme rigida Oeme rigida deserta? - Oeme rigida Oeme rigida or costata? (or something else?) - Oeme rigida Oeme sp? - Oeme rigida
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Chrysomeloidea (Longhorn and Leaf Beetles)
Family Cerambycidae (Longhorn Beetles)
Subfamily Cerambycinae
Tribe Oemini
Subtribe Oemina
Genus Oeme
Species rigida (Oeme rigida)
Explanation of Names
Oeme rigida (Say 1826)
Numbers
2 sspp., both in our area(1)
Size
6-20 mm(2)
Identification
habitus distinctive(2)
Range
e. US to AZ-UT - Map (3)
O. r. rigida - e. US to TX
O. r. deserta - AZ-TX-CO-UT(1)
Food
on Juniperus and Taxodium, rarely Pinus(4)
Reared from Cupressus x leylandii, noted here - https://bugguide.net/node/view/1733807/bgimage
Remarks
uncommon, nocturnal(2)
Internet References
Cerambycidae Catalog
Works Cited
1.New World Cerambycidae Catalog
2.Field Guide to Northeastern Longhorned Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
Douglas Yanega. 1996. Illinois Natural History Survey.
3.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
4.Illustrated Key to the Longhorned Woodboring Beetles of the Eastern United States
Steven W. Lingafelter. 2008. Coleopterists Society.
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 17 December, 2007 - 3:21pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov, Tyler Hedlund
Last updated 27 January, 2020 - 11:38am

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