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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) » Flower Longhorns (Lepturinae) » Lepturini » Xestoleptura » Xestoleptura crassipes

Species Xestoleptura crassipes

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited
Flower Longhorn Beetle - Xestoleptura crassipes Xestoleptura crassicornis 02a - Xestoleptura crassipes Xestoleptura crassipes Unknown longhorn beetle? - Xestoleptura crassipes Golden Beetles - Xestoleptura crassipes - male - female Cleridae ? - Xestoleptura crassipes flower longhorn - 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 (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 Lepturinae (Flower Longhorns)
Tribe Lepturini
Genus Xestoleptura
Species crassipes (Xestoleptura crassipes)
Explanation of Names
Xestoleptura crassipes (LeConte 1857)
crassipes = 'thick-legged'
Size
8-15 mm(1)
Identification
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 3 July, 2015 - 1:08pm

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