Species Callidium antennatum - Blackhorned Pine Borer

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

Blackhorned Pine Borer - Callidium antennatum

Callidium antennatum - Blackhorned Pine Borer - Callidium antennatum

Callidium species.... - Callidium antennatum

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 Callidiini

Genus Callidium

Species antennatum (Blackhorned Pine Borer)

Explanation of Names

Callidium antennatum Newman 1838

Numbers

2 sspp., both in our area(1): C. a. antennatum in the east, C. a. hesperum in the west

Range

transcontinental in the US + w.NA (BC-CA-AZ)(2)

Season

Adults in early spring(3)

Food

Dead or recently felled conifers(3)

Life Cycle

Eggs are laid beneath bark scales on dead trees or overwintered cut wood. The larvae feed on the phloem and outer sapwood, making broad wavy tunnels and pushing frass out through small holes. Pupation occurs in the wood in long cells plugged with wads of frass. Usually one generation per year.(3)

Remarks

Usually found on fallen pine branches in the Sierra in spring

Works Cited

1.	New World Cerambycidae Catalog

2.	Biological and distributional observations on North American Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) MacRae T.C., Rice M.E. 2007. Col. Bull. 61: 227–263.

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

Contributed by Will Chatfield-Taylor on 4 September, 2008 - 7:48pm
Additional contributions by Joyce Gross, Canehowlet, Mike Quinn, v belov, Marci Hess
Last updated 18 December, 2023 - 11:46pm

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