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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) » Flat-faced Longhorn Beetles (Lamiinae) » Cyrtinini » Cyrtinus » Cyrtinus beckeri

Species Cyrtinus beckeri

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Cyrtinus beckeri Howden - Cyrtinus beckeri
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 Lamiinae (Flat-faced Longhorn Beetles)
Tribe Cyrtinini
Genus Cyrtinus
Species beckeri (Cyrtinus beckeri)
Explanation of Names
Cyrtinus beckeri Howden 1960
Numbers
2 spp. n. of Mex. (1)
Size
2.3-3.5 mm (2)
Range
w. TX, se NM / n. MEX (2)
Season
May-June, Sept-Nov. (3)
Food
Larvae reared from dead twigs of Acer grandidentatum (3)
Life Cycle
Ant mimic
Remarks
Type Locality: Pine Canyon, 5000 ft, Chisos Mountains, Big Bend National Park, Brewster Co., Texas. May 10, 1959. Acer grandidentatum (4)
Print References
Howden, H.F. 1960. Two new species of Cyrtinus LeConte. Canadian Entomologist 92(3): 173-177, 4 figs.
Linsley, E.G. and J.A. Chemsak. 1995. The Cerambycidae of North America, Part VII, No. 2. Taxonomy and Classification of the Subfamily Lamiinae, Tribes Acanthocinini through Hemilophini. Univ. Calif. Publ. Entomol., Berkeley, 114: xi + 292 pp., 55 figs. (2)
Rice, M.E., R.H. Turnbow, Jr. & F.T. Hovore. 1985. Biological and distributional observations on Cerambycidae from the southwestern United States. The Coleopterists Bulletin 39(1): 18-24. (3)
Van Pelt, A.F. 2002. Insect species described from Big Bend National Park. Insecta Mundi 16(1-3): 124-145. (4)
Internet References
Cerambycidae Catalog
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
2.The Cerambycidae of North America, Part VII, No. 2: ... subfamily Lamiinae, tribes Acanthocinini through Hemilophini.
E. Gorton Linsley & John A. Chemsak. 1995. University of California Publications in Entomology 114: 1-292.
3.Biological and distributional observations on Cerambycidae from the southwestern United States.
Rice, M.E., R.H. Turnbow, Jr. & F.T. Hovore. 1985. The Coleopterists Bulletin 39(1): 18-24.
4.Insect species described from Big Bend National Park
Arnold F. Van Pelt. 2002. Insecta Mundi, 16(1-3): 125-145.
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 4 February, 2010 - 12:29am
Last updated 6 September, 2014 - 10:29am

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