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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Longhorn Beetles (Cerambycidae) » Flower Longhorn Beetles (Lepturinae) » Pidoniini » Pidonia » subgenus Pidonia (Pidonia subgenus Pidonia) » Pidonia vibex OR nitidicollis (Pidonia vibex)

Species Pidonia vibex - Pidonia vibex OR nitidicollis

Representative Images

Flower Longhorn - Pidonia vibex insect on geranium - Pidonia vibex Arden Longhorn - Pidonia vibex Flower Longhorn sp.? - Pidonia vibex Cerambycidae - Pidonia vibex Strangalepta sp ? - Pidonia vibex black and orange flower beetle - Pidonia vibex two-striped longhorn - Pidonia vibex

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 Lepturinae (Flower Longhorn Beetles)
Tribe Pidoniini
Genus Pidonia
No Taxon (subgenus Pidonia)
Species vibex (Pidonia vibex OR nitidicollis)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

reinstated out of synonymy with P. ruficollis in (1)

Explanation of Names

Pidonia vibex (Newman 1841)

Identification

In the male, the deep concavity of the last ventrite and impressed penultimate ventrite separate vibex from ruficollis, which has the last ventrite shallowly concave and the penultimate not impressed. Additionally, ruficollis does not have pale stripes - most of the images of specimens of ruficollis with stripes will actually be either vibex or nitidipennis (the latter two striped species need to be examined from ventral side to separate). --Robert Androw, 7.i.2020
NB: looks like Bob meant nitidicollis rather than nitidipennis =v=

Works Cited

1.Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska
Bousquet Y., Laplante S., Hammond H.E.J., Langor D.W. 2017. TBA. 300 pp.
Contributed by Brady Richards on 11 January, 2020 - 3:12pm
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban, v belov
Last updated 11 September, 2021 - 3:52pm

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