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Species Goes tigrinus - White oak borer

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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 Lamiinae (Flat-faced Longhorn Beetles)
Tribe Monochamini
Genus Goes
Species tigrinus (White oak borer)
Explanation of Names
Goes tigrinus (DeGeer 1775)
Size
22-34 mm(1)
Identification
Covered in reticulated snow-white pubescence, may have a very faint bluish grey tint
Range
e US (NY-FL to MI-TX); uncommon(2)(3)
Season
May-Oct, most abundant Jun-Jul(2)
Food
Larvae feed in living hardwoods, especially oak(2)
Life Cycle
takes 3-5 years to complete; adults emerge in mid-spring and deposit eggs in roughened bark or near wounds

Each larva bores two holes -- an elongate one for expulsion of grass and a round one for the adult to emerge from(4)
Remarks
reportedly an important pest of all oaks in the white oak group
Works Cited
1.Field Guide to Northeastern Longhorned Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
Douglas Yanega. 1996. Illinois Natural History Survey.
2.Illustrated Key to the Longhorned Woodboring Beetles of the Eastern United States
Steven W. Lingafelter. 2008. Coleopterists Society.
3.The Cerambycidae of North America, Part VII, No. 1: ...subfamily Lamiinae, tribes Parmenini through Acanthoderini
E.G. Linsley, J. A. Chemsak. 1984. University of California Publications in Entomology 102: 1-258.
4.Eastern Forest Insects
Whiteford L. Baker. 1972. U.S. Department of Agriculture · Forest Service.
Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 12 June, 2006 - 10:46am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov, Marci Hess
Last updated 23 July, 2023 - 1:20pm

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