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Tribe Trachyderini

Representative Images

This year, a female - Aethecerinus latecinctus Tragidion sp. - Tragidion densiventre - male Brown Canyon Bycid - Rhodoleptus femoratus Crossidius testaceus - Crossidius testaceus small red bug or beetle hiding under black-eyed susan head - Batyle suturalis Uknown Bug - Stenaspis verticalis longhorn - Sphaenothecus bilineatus Think I found the source … - Aethecerinus wilsonii

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 Trachyderini

Explanation of Names

Trachyderini Dupont 1836

Numbers

73 spp. in 25 genera in our area, ~480 spp. in 134 genera of 2 subtribes in the New World(1); 2 more genera and ~70 spp. in Eurasia

Range

New World, esp. the Neotropics; in our area, by far more diverse in the south(1) [only 9 spp. reach Canada(2)]

Works Cited

1.New World Cerambycidae Catalog
2.Bousquet Y., ed. (1991) Checklist of the beetles of Canada and Alaska
Contributed by Chuck Entz on 8 February, 2008 - 11:01pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 1 March, 2015 - 5:40pm

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