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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) » Flower Longhorn Beetles (Lepturinae) » Lepturini » Xestoleptura » Xestoleptura crassipes

Species Xestoleptura crassipes

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited
Flower Longhorn - Xestoleptura crassipes - male Xestoleptura crassipes Xestoleptura species - how about vancouveri? - Xestoleptura crassipes Flower Longhorned Beetle? Xestoleptura? - Xestoleptura crassipes Cerambycid - Xestoleptura crassipes Unknown longhorn beetle? - Xestoleptura crassipes Beetle 4 (Timothy Lake) - Xestoleptura crassipes Flower Longhorned Beetle - Xestoleptura crassipes
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 Lepturinae (Flower Longhorn Beetles)
Tribe Lepturini
Genus Xestoleptura
Species crassipes (Xestoleptura crassipes)
Explanation of Names
Xestoleptura crassipes (LeConte 1857)
crassipes 'thick-legged'
Size
8―15 mm(1)
Identification
The single hind tibial spur and the strongly produced basal lobe of the elytra around the scutellum separate it from the similar X. crassicornis. --Bob Androw
variable:
Range
w. NA (BC―CA to AB―MT―CO)(2)(3)(1)
Food
Hosts: various conifers and oak(1)
Works Cited
1.A checklist of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of Montana with distribution maps
Hart C.J., Cope J.S., Ivie M.A. 2013. Col. Bull. 67: 133-148.
2.Cerambycidae of North America. Part VI, No. 2. Taxonomy and classification of the subfamily Lepturinae.
E. Gorton Linsley and John A. Chemsak. 1976. 1976. University of California Press, Berkeley.
3.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.
Contributed by Cotinis on 26 October, 2005 - 7:13am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 9 August, 2023 - 11:09pm

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