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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 » Trachyderini » Trachyderina » Elytroleptus » Elytroleptus floridanus

Species Elytroleptus floridanus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited

Elytroleptus floridanus - in the back yard. - Elytroleptus floridanus

Elytroleptus floridanus (LeConte) - Elytroleptus floridanus

Black and Orange Beetle - Elytroleptus floridanus

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 Trachyderini

Subtribe Trachyderina

Genus Elytroleptus

Species floridanus (Elytroleptus floridanus)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Elytroleptus floridanus (LeConte)

Orig. Comb: Pteroplatus floridanus LeConte 1862

Size

8-11 mm (1)

Identification

Range

e. US (MA-FL to ON-MO-TX) - Map (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7), primarily along the Gulf Coast and eastern seaboard

Season

mostly Apr-Jun (7)

Food

larvae known to develop in oaks, Quercus spp. (8)

Life Cycle

sp. greatly resembles lycid beetles on which the adults are presumed to feed (a unique occurrence of predatory adults in Cerambycidae); whether this is an obligate predatory relationship is uncertain, as the feeding may be only to obtain defensive chemicals from the lycids rather than for nourishment. (1)

Remarks

uncommon (8)

Internet References

Cerambycidae Catalog

Works Cited

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

2.	New World Cerambycidae Catalog

3.	Bousquet Y., ed. (1991) Checklist of the beetles of Canada and Alaska

4.	University of New Hampshire Insect and Arachnid Collections

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

6.	List of Coleoptera Collected in Latimer County, Oklahoma by Karl Stephan (2002)

7.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

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

Contributed by v belov on 4 June, 2009 - 9:05am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 14 March, 2023 - 6:08pm

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