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Species Ochraethes citrinus

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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 Ochraethes
Species citrinus (Ochraethes citrinus)
Other Common Names
'Lemon-colored Longhorn'
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Ochraethes citrinus (Chevrolat)
Orig. Comb: Clytus citrinus Chevrolat 1860
Explanation of Names
citrinus (G). 'lemon' (1)
Numbers
1 sp. n. of Mex. (2)
Range
Davis Mtns* & Big Bend NP, TX to C. Amer. - Map (3)(4)(*D. Heffern, pers. comm. to MAQ, 2021)
Habitat
Asteraceae flwrs above 6,000ft elevation (D. Heffern, pers. comm. to MAQ, 2021)
Season
Aug-Nov (4)
Life Cycle
most records from blossoms of Asteracese (5)(4)
coll'ed in TX from flwrs of snakeweed - Gutierrezia and sunflowers - Helianthus (Asteraceae) (6)
Remarks
several old spmns labelled only as having come from Hidalgo or Cameron County(7), though a modern record exists from west of Ciudad Victoria, Tamps, Mex.(8)
Internet References
Works Cited
1.Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms
Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.
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.
3.New World Cerambycidae Catalog
4.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
5.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.
6.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.
7.The Cerambycidae of North America. Part V. ... subfamily Cerambycinae, tribes Callichromatini through Ancylocerini
Linsley E.G. 1964. U. Cal. Publ. Entomol. 22: 1-197.
8.iNaturalist