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Tribe Pteropliini

Ataxia crypta (Say) - Ataxia crypta Ataxia crypta? - Ataxia crypta cerambycid - Ataxia Possible Ataxia hubbardi - Ataxia hubbardi Ataxia sp ? - Ataxia Ataxia ventral view - Ataxia crypta Ataxia arizonica? - Ataxia arizonica Pterolophia? - Ataxia
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 Pteropliini
Explanation of Names
Pteropliini Thomson 1860
Numbers
8 spp. in a single genus in our area, ~120 spp. in 18 genera in the New World(1), >2,060 spp. in >280 genera worldwide(2)
Range
pantropical (mostly palaeotropical, esp. Oriental) group with just 90 spp. in the holarctic region, of which just a few in NA(2); in our area, so. US, with 1 sp. ranging north to MN(1)