Species Neoclytus caprea - Banded Ash Borer

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Works Cited

Unidentified - cerambycid? - Neoclytus caprea

Male and female, Banded Ash Borer - Neoclytus caprea - male - female

first I’ve come across in this neck of the woods - Neoclytus caprea

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 Clytini

Genus Neoclytus

Species caprea (Banded Ash Borer)

Explanation of Names

Neoclytus caprea (Say 1823)

Size

Adult 8‒17 mm(1), larva up to 22 mm

Range

QC‒n.GA to *ID‒UT‒AZ; in Canada, only Lower Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Lowland region north to Montreal area(2)(*BG data)

Season

Adults emerge May‒Aug in the North, Feb‒Nov in the South

Food

sapwood of ash, sometimes oak, hickory(1)

Life Cycle

One generation a year; larvae feed on sapwood over summer, pupate in the fall but adult doesn't emerge until spring(3)

Remarks

often emerges indoors from firewood; sawlogs may become infested within 20 days of felling during summer

Works Cited

1.	Field Guide to Northeastern Longhorned Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) Douglas Yanega. 1996. Illinois Natural History Survey.

2.	Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Col.) of Canada and United States of America, Parts I‒IV Monné M.A., Nearns E.H. 2023. Available from https://cerambycids.com/catalog/.

3.	Eastern Forest Insects Whiteford L. Baker. 1972. U.S. Department of Agriculture · Forest Service.

Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 19 February, 2008 - 10:27am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov, Marci Hess
Last updated 13 March, 2024 - 9:27pm

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