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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) » Cerambycinae » Tillomorphini » Euderces

Genus Euderces

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited
Tiny Longhorn - Euderces pini Several longhorns on wild hydrangea flowers - Euderces picipes Euderces Yellow faced ? - Euderces picipes Euderces picipes?? - Euderces picipes Euderces pini Long-horn - Euderces picipes Euderces pini
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 Cerambycinae
Tribe Tillomorphini
Genus Euderces
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
revised in(1)
Explanation of Names
Euderces LeConte 1850
Numbers
4 spp. in our area, ~60 total(2)
Size
4-9 mm
Identification
among the smallest of our longhorns; ant-like and often attractively marked(3)
among the three eastern species, E. pini is the only one with the post-median elytral fasciae in deep grooves; the median fascia are oblique in E. picipes vs. transverse in E. reichei (T.C. MacRae, 21.iv.2008)
Range
se. Canada (QC-ON) to Venezuela–Colombia(4)(2)
Food
Larvae feed in dead branches of chestnuts, hickories, oaks, redbuds, hackberries, etc.(3)
Works Cited
1.A review of the genus Euderces LeConte (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae; Tillomorphini)
Giesbert E.F., Chemsak J.A. 1997. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 49: 211-286.
2.A Photographic Catalog of the Cerambycidae of the New World
3.Peterson Field Guides: Beetles
Richard E. White. 1983. Houghton Mifflin Company.
4.Bousquet Y., ed. (1991) Checklist of the beetles of Canada and Alaska
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, john and jane balaban, Beatriz Moisset, Lynette Elliott, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 11 November, 2017 - 4:47pm

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