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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 » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Longhorn Beetles (Cerambycidae) » Cerambycinae » Trachyderini » Trachyderina » Sphaenothecus » Sphaenothecus bilineatus

Species Sphaenothecus bilineatus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited

Double Banded Bycid - Sphaenothecus bilineatus

Sphaenothecus bivittata Dupont - Sphaenothecus bilineatus

Cerambycidae sp - Sphaenothecus bilineatus

Double-banded Bycid - Sphaenothecus bilineatus - male - female

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 (Longhorn and Leaf Beetles)

Family Cerambycidae (Longhorn Beetles)

Subfamily Cerambycinae

Tribe Trachyderini

Subtribe Trachyderina

Genus Sphaenothecus

Species bilineatus (Sphaenothecus bilineatus)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Sphaenothecus bivittatus Dupont 1838

Explanation of Names

Sphaenothecus bilineatus (Gory 1831)

Range

s. CA-TX-OK / Mex. - Map (1)(2)

Season

mostly: Sep-Nov (2)

Food

Larval hosts: Mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa) and Roses (Rosa spp.)(3)

Life Cycle

Males position themselves on the highest tips of branches on flowering shrubs or small trees and keep lookout for females. Their long thin antennae wave in the wind. When females arrive, the males are quick to take action and they frequently mate while the females feed.(4)

See Also

Lophalia cyanicollis (Dupont)

- Range: AZ(?), southmost TX

Det. E. G. Riley, 2009

Internet References

Cerambycidae Catalog

Texas Entomology - Mike Quinn, 2008

Works Cited

1.	New World Cerambycidae Catalog

2.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

3.	The Cerambycidae, or longhorned beetles, of southern Texas: a faunal survey (Coleoptera) Hovore F.T., Penrose R.L., Neck R.W. 1987. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 44: 283-334.

4.	Austin bug collection

Contributed by Joshua Stuart Rose on 20 November, 2005 - 9:19am
Additional contributions by Tom Bentley, Mike Quinn, margarethe brummermann, v belov
Last updated 14 September, 2022 - 10:56am

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