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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Cucujiformia » Long-horned and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Long-horned Beetles (Cerambycidae) » Prioninae » Prionini » Prionus

Genus Prionus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited

VERY LARGE BLACK BEETLE ON CONEFLOWER LEAF - Prionus laticollis

Prionus spinipennis Hovore & Turnbow - Prionus spinipennis - male

Broad-necked Root Borer - Prionus sp? - Prionus laticollis

Possibly a Broad-necked Root Borer? - Prionus imbricornis

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Chrysomeloidea (Long-horned and Leaf Beetles)

Family Cerambycidae (Long-horned Beetles)

Subfamily Prioninae

Tribe Prionini

Genus Prionus

Explanation of Names

Prionus Geoffroy 1762

Greek prion 'saw'

Numbers

16 spp. in 4 subgenera in our area (26 spp. in 5 subgenera in the New World(1), many more in Eurasia) as follows:(2)

subg. Prionus Geoffroy; 12-13 antennomeres, generally distributed

P. californicus Motschulsky (♂ 24-45mm, ♀ 38-55mm) w. NA

P. heroicus Semenov (♂ 27-51mm, ♀ 35-50mm) sw. US (AZ, NM)

P. laticollis (Drury) (♂ 22-32mm, ♀ 31-44mm) e. NA

P. lecontei Lameere (♂ 30-45mm, ♀ 52-60mm) w. NA

P. pocularis Dalman in Schoenherr (♂ 25-38mm, ♀ 28-45mm) e. NA

subg. Homaesthesis LeConte; 12-14 antennomeres, dull, not striolate, central and western US

P. arenarius Hovore (♂ 17-33mm, ♀ 20-24mm) sw. US (TX, NM)

P. emarginatus Say (♂ 17-22mm, ♀ 22-25mm) c. US (CO, WY, NM)

P. integer LeConte (♂ 24-25mm, ♀ 20-22mm) c. US (ID, NE, UT, CO, KS)

P. linsleyi Hovore (♂ 16mm, ♀ 20mm) sw. US (AZ)

P. palparis Say (♂ 24-37mm, ♀ 35-40mm) sc. US (AZ, NM, CO, KS, NE, OK)

P. rhodocerus Linsley (♂ 19-25mm, ♀ 23mm) wc. US (KS, NE, NM, AZ, CO, UT)

P. simplex (Casey) (♂ 22-25mm, ♀ ?mm) c. US (KS)

P. spinipennis Hovore & Turnbow (♂ 20-32mm, ♀ 29-30mm) sw. US (NM, TX)

subg. Neopolyarthron Semenov; 15-20 antennomeres

P. debilis Casey (♂ 20-28mm, ♀ 34-36mm) c. US (IA, IL-LA, TX)

P. imbricornis (Linnaeus) (♂ 24-39mm, ♀ 32-50mm) e. US-TX

subg. Antennalia Casey; 25-30 antennomeres

P. fissicornis Haldeman (♂ 27-36mm, ♀ 32-40mm) c. US (MT-TX)

Identification

Sexual dimorphism obvious. Twelve or more antennomeres; distinctly poriferous in males, less in females:

Range

primarily holarctic; in NA, from so. Canada to Mexico + 1 sp. in the Dominican Republic(1)

Works Cited

1.	New World Cerambycidae Catalog

2.	Illustrated revision of the Cerambycidae of North America. Vol. I, Subfamilies Parandrinae, Spondylidinae, Aseminae, Prioninae Chemsak A.J. 1996. Wolfsgarden Press, Burbank, ix+150pp., 10 pls.

Contributed by Cotinis on 4 April, 2004 - 12:14am
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian, nebbeetle, v belov
Last updated 8 August, 2018 - 2:16pm

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