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Genus Enaphalodes - Oak Borer

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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 Elaphidiini

Genus Enaphalodes (Oak Borer)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Romaleum White 1855, in part

Explanation of Names

Enaphalodes Haldeman 1847

Numbers

8 spp. in our area(1), 16 total(2)

Size

20-35 mm

Identification

Brown or reddish black, sparsely pubescent, except for dense patches of white pubescence on head, pronotum and most of elytra. Head coarsely punctate between eyes. Antennae longer than body, each segment with a spine. Pronotum coarsely and densely punctate. Elytra coarsely but not densely punctate, with punctures finer toward the apex.(2)

key to spp. in(3)

Range

NA to Colombia; in our area, 4 spp. are rather widespread in e. NA, 3 spp. restricted to sw. US, and 1 sp. to FL(1)

Food

on oak

See Also

Works Cited

1.	New World Cerambycidae Catalog

2.	Lingafelter S.W. (20yy-) The Elaphidiini site

3.	A new species of Enaphalodes Haldeman from Florida (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) with review of genus, synonymy, and key to species Lingafelter S.W., Chemsak J.A. 2002. Col. Bull. 56: 569–581.

Contributed by Cotinis on 7 July, 2005 - 1:43pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Maury Heiman, v belov
Last updated 9 February, 2024 - 6:05pm

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