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Species Tragidion coquus

Orange & Black Longhorned Bettle - Tragidion coquus

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 Tragidion

Species coquus (Tragidion coquus)

Explanation of Names

Tragidion coquus (Linnaeus 1758)

Size

15-25 mm(1)

Identification

amount of orange on the elytra highly variable

Range

e US to NM-CO (NH-FL to CO-NM) - Map (2)(3)

Habitat

in north-central TX, adults taken from many plants, including Thurberia, Salix, Helianthus, Grindelia, Prionopsis(4)

Season

mostly Sept-Oct (4)(BG data)

Food

Larvae develop in Quercus and Celtis(5)

adults perhaps most commonly associated with Spanish gold (Prionopsis) in north-central TX where dozens were seen feeding and mating on the dying blossoms during September and October (4)

Remarks

One hundred and eighty-seven specimens examined from north-central TX (4)

Internet References

Cerambycidae Catalog

Works Cited

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

2.	A review of the genus Tragidion Audinet-Serville, 1834 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae: Trachyderini) Swift I., Ray A.M. 2008. Zootaxa 1892: 1-25.

3.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

4.	The Cerambycidae of north-central Texas. Lingafelter, S.W. & N.V. Horner. 1993. Coleopterists Bulletin, 47(2): 159-191.

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

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 25 August, 2005 - 11:41am
Additional contributions by Chuck Entz, Mike Quinn, v belov, bmathison1972
Last updated 9 May, 2023 - 5:01pm

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