Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Species Nathrius brevipennis

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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 Cerambycinae
Tribe Psebiini
Genus Nathrius
Species brevipennis (Nathrius brevipennis)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Gracilia manca LeConte
Explanation of Names
Nathrius brevipennis (Mulsant 1839)
brevipennis 'short-winged'
Range
native to so. Europe, adventive elsewhere(1), incl. w. US(2); now cosmopolitan
Food
Polyphagous on hardwoods & shrubs (dead twigs)(1)
Life Cycle
1-2 yrs(1)
Remarks
spreading by commerce (with wood packaging)(1)
earliest record in our area: CA, before 1850(2)