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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) » Cerambycinae » Elaphidiini » Elaphidion » Spined Oak Borer (Elaphidion mucronatum)

Species Elaphidion mucronatum - Spined Oak Borer

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

Spined Oak Borer Beetle - Elaphidion mucronatum

Unidentified Cerambycid - Elaphidion mucronatum

Spined Oak Borer (Elaphidion mucronatum) - Elaphidion mucronatum

Spined Oak Borer - Elaphidion mucronatum

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 Elaphidion

Species mucronatum (Spined Oak Borer)

Explanation of Names

Elaphidion mucronatum (Say 1823)

mucronatus = 'sharp-pointed'

Size

12-20 mm(1)(2)

Identification

Note very long femoral spines

Range

ON-MN to FL-AZ(3)(4)(5)(6)

Season

Adults active April-October. (7)

Food

Extremely polyphagous; hosts include most eastern hardwoods & shrubs.(1)(6)

Also noted in bald cypress (Taxodium distichum). (7)

Life Cycle

Eggs are laid beneath bark of dead hardwoods. Larvae feed beneath the bark for the first year and feed deeper the second year.

Remarks

Adults come to lights, bait traps; very common(1)

Works Cited

1.	Field Guide to Northeastern Longhorned Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) Douglas Yanega. 1996. Illinois Natural History Survey.

2.	Thomas M.C., Hill S., Morris R.F., Nearns G. () The Cerambycidae of Florida

3.	A Distributional Checklist of the Beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida

4.	Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition Bousquet Y., Bouchard P., Davies A.E., Sikes D.S. 2013. ZooKeys 360: 1–402.

5.	New World Cerambycidae Catalog

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

7.	Illustrated Key to the Longhorned Woodboring Beetles of the Eastern United States Steven W. Lingafelter. 2008. Coleopterists Society.

Contributed by Cotinis on 29 July, 2005 - 8:13pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 2 June, 2017 - 8:37pm

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