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Subspecies Molorchus bimaculatus semiustus

Representative Images

Molorchus bimaculatus Say (reddish form) - Molorchus bimaculatus - female Molorchus bimaculatus Say (reddish form) - Molorchus bimaculatus Molorchus bimaculatus Say (reddish form) - Molorchus bimaculatus - male Molorchus bimaculatus semiustus Newman - Molorchus bimaculatus - female

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 Molorchini
Genus Molorchus
Species bimaculatus (Molorchus bimaculatus)
Subspecies semiustus (Molorchus bimaculatus semiustus)

Explanation of Names

Molorchus bimaculatus semiustus Newman 1840
semiustus (L). 'semi scorched, browned' (1)

Range

se US (TX-FL-GA-MO) / Cuba (2)(3)(4)(2)

Season

Mar-May (5)(BG data)

Food

larvae develop in Crataegus, Carya, Vitis (2)(5)

Life Cycle

adults often come to dogwood (Cornus) flowers (2)(5)

Remarks

Type Locality: St. Johns Bluff, Duval Co., FL

Print References

Newman, E. 1840. Entomological Notes. Entomologist, London 2: 17-32.

Internet References

Cerambycidae Catalog
Cerambycidae of Florida

Works Cited

1.Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms
Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.
2.Biological and distributional observations on North American Cerambycidae (Coleoptera)
MacRae T.C., Rice M.E. 2007. Col. Bull. 61: 227–263.
3. A distributional checklist of the beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida.
Peck & Thomas. 1998. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville. 180 pp.
4.List of Coleoptera Collected in Latimer County, Oklahoma by Karl Stephan (2002)
5.Illustrated Key to the Longhorned Woodboring Beetles of the Eastern United States
Steven W. Lingafelter. 2008. Coleopterists Society.
Contributed by Blaine Mathison on 29 April, 2010 - 10:29am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 25 March, 2017 - 9:36am

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