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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Tribe Acanthoderini

Longhorn beetle w big feet - Aegomorphus modestus - male Aegomorphus? - Aegomorphus modestus Flat Faced Longhorn Beetle - Aegomorphus quadrigibbus Acanthoderes morrisii Uhler  - Aegomorphus morrisii - male - female Peritapnia fabra Aegomorphus arizonicus? - Aegomorphus arizonicus Cerambycidae - Peritapnia fabra
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 Acanthoderini
Explanation of Names
Acanthoderini Thomson 1860
Numbers
7 spp. in 4 genera in our area, almost 500 spp. in 58 genera in the New World, >500 spp. in ~70 genera total(1)(2)
Range
in our area, e. NA to AZ in the south; by far most diverse in S. America(1), feebly represented elsewhere (~15 spp. outside the New World)(2)