Genus Placosternus

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

Large black Cerambycid with light-yellow markings and red extremities - Placosternus

Longhorn Beetle sp. - Placosternus difficilis

Beetle borer of some sort? - Placosternus erythropus

What bug is this? - Placosternus difficilis

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 Cerambycinae

Tribe Clytini

Genus Placosternus

Explanation of Names

Placosternus Hopping 1937

Numbers

2 spp. in our area, 4 spp. in the New World(1)

Identification

Separated from Megacyllene by the basal antennomere lacking a spine. (2)

Range

so. US (FL-CA) to Venezuela-Colombia(1)

See Also

Megacyllene widespread

Works Cited

1.	New World Cerambycidae Catalog

2.	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.

Contributed by Joshua Stuart Rose on 12 November, 2005 - 4:01pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov, Nathaniel Green
Last updated 30 December, 2021 - 4:11pm

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