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Genus Mallodon

Representative Images

Mallodon dasystomus? - Mallodon dasystomus click beetle? - Mallodon dasystomus Longhorned Beetle - Mallodon dasystomus Hardwood Stump Borer - Mallodon dasystomus Mallodon dasystomus? - Mallodon dasystomus Mallodon dasystomus? - Mallodon dasystomus Mallodon dasystomus? - Mallodon dasystomus - male Confusing Beetle - Mallodon dasystomus

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 Prioninae
Tribe Mallodonini
Genus Mallodon

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

until recently, treated as a subgenus of Stenodontes(1)

Explanation of Names

Mallodon Lacordaire 1830

Numbers

A single species in our area, 5 spp. in the New World(2)

Identification

Antennal tubercles at the base of the antennae acute; mandibles nearly horizontal, prolonged in male, more or less carinate above, most bidentate and pubescent internally

Range

so.US (north to VA‒OK‒AZ) to Argentina(3)(2)

Works Cited

1.Thomas M.C., Hill S., Morris R.F., Nearns G. () The Cerambycidae of Florida
2.New World Cerambycidae Catalog
3.A Distributional Checklist of the Beetles (Coleoptera) of Florida
Contributed by Cotinis on 15 June, 2004 - 10:33am
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian, v belov, Arturo Santos
Last updated 11 July, 2024 - 6:03am

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