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Tribe Tetraopini

Unidentified Insect 3 - Tetraopes melanurus

Beetle - what species? - Tetraopes tetrophthalmus

Unknown Plant Bug - Tetraopes tetrophthalmus

Red Milkweed Beetle - Tetraopes tetrophthalmus

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 Tetraopini

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

sometimes treated to include Tetrops(1)

Explanation of Names

Tetraopini Thomson 1860

Numbers

17 spp. in 2 genera in our area, 86 spp. in 3 genera total(2)

Range

primarily neotropical group represented also in NA(2) [the distribution shown in(1) reflects a wider definition of the tribe]

Works Cited

1.	Roguet J.-P. (2013) Lamiaires du Monde (Coleoptera Cerambycidae Lamiinae)

2.	New World Cerambycidae Catalog

Contributed by Chuck Entz on 9 February, 2008 - 1:01am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 1 March, 2015 - 5:55pm

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