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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) » Lepturini » Judolia » Judolia montivagans

Species Judolia montivagans

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Lepturini
Genus Judolia
Species montivagans (Judolia montivagans)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Judolia montivagans (Couper) 1864
Leptura sexmaculata Kirby 1837
Strangalia sex-maculata LeConte 1850
Leptura montivagans Couper 1864
Judolia seminigra Casey 1924
Explanation of Names
montivagans - French for mountain wanderer.
Numbers
8 spp. n. of Mex. (1)
Size
7-12 mm (2)
Identification
Pronotum black. Elytra black with cream to pale yellow marks. Wide cream stripe from base to about mid wing, lower border jagged and with 2 or 3 black oval marks through the middle – may vary. 2nd cream stripe on lower wings, both top and lower border jagged.
Range
boreal N. Amer. (2)
Habitat
Forests
Season
mostly: Jun-Jul (BG data)
Food
Larvae feed on Pine and possibly Poplar – apparently live trees.
Remarks
Types:
Holotype as Leptura sexmaculata by Kirby, 1837. Type Locality: North America. Kirby's collections are in the British Museum (Natural History) and the Linnean Society.
Holotype as Leptura montivagans by Couper, 1864. Type Locality: Quebec. Couper’s collection is scattered. Most of his Coleoptera are at the Lyman Museum at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.
Holotype as Judolia seminigra male by Casey, 1924. Type Locality: Idaho. In the United States National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C. Type #26010
Print References
Fauna Boreali-Americana, 1837, Pt. 4 by Kirby (Richardson), pp. 182-183.
Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1847-50, Series 2, Vol. 1 by LeConte, pg. 333.
Transactions of the Literary and Historical Society, Quebec, 1864 by Couper: List of Coleoptera and Diptera taken at Quebec and other parts of L(ower) Canada, pg. 15.
Memoirs on the Coleoptera, 1924, Vol. 11 by Casey, pg. 283.
Great Lakes Entomologist, 1977, Vol. 10 #1 by Gosling & Gosling, pg. 10.
Beetles of Eastern North America, 2014 by Evans, pg. 395.
Internet References
J. m. montivagans - widely dist. (2)
J. m. barberi - usually all black elytra, Range: OR-CA (2)
Works Cited
1.New World Cerambycidae Catalog
2.Cerambycidae of North America. Part VI, No. 2. Taxonomy and classification of the subfamily Lepturinae.
E. Gorton Linsley and John A. Chemsak. 1976. 1976. University of California Press, Berkeley.
Contributed by tom murray on 25 June, 2005 - 7:10am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, lee_penner
Last updated 19 March, 2020 - 11:09pm

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