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Species Callidiellum rufipenne - Japanese Cedar Longhorn Beetle

Representative Images

Japanese Cedar Longhorned Beetle - Callidiellum rufipenne - male Callidiellum rufipenne? - Callidiellum rufipenne - male Cerambycid beetle - Callidiellum rufipenne Callidiellum rufipenne Callidiellum rufipenne Callidiellum rufipenne Callidiellum rufipenne Callidellium rufipenne - Callidiellum rufipenne

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 Callidiini
Genus Callidiellum
Species rufipenne (Japanese Cedar Longhorn Beetle)

Explanation of Names

Callidiellum rufipenne (Motschulsky 1860)

Size

6–13 mm (Hoebeke 1999)

Identification

dorsal habitus(1)

Range

native to e. Asia, adventive in NA (East Coast: RI-NC), so. Europe(2)(3), and Argentina (Di Iorio 2004)

Food

hosts: Cupressaceae and Taxodiaceae (Chamaecyparis, Cryptomeria, Cupressus, Juniperus, Thuja)(2)

Remarks

earliest record in our area: BC 1927 (Hoebeke 1999)

Print References

Hoebeke E.R. (1999) Japanese cedar longhorned beetle in the eastern United States. USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service 81–35–004 (Full text)
Di Iorio O.R. (2004) Exotic species of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) introduced in Argentina. Part 2. New records, host plants, emergence periods, and current status. Agrociencia 38: 663-678 (Full text)

Internet References

Fact sheet

Works Cited

1.Hoskovec M., Rejzek M. (1997-2012) West Palaearctic Cerambycidae
2.Exotic bark- and wood-boring Coleoptera in the United States: recent establishments and interceptions
Haack R.A. 2006. Can. J. For. Res. 36(2): 269–288.
3.Alien terrestrial arthropods of Europe
Roques A., Kenis M., Lees D., Lopez-Vaamonde C., Rabitsch W., Rasplus J.-Y., Roy D., eds. 2010. BioRisk 4 Special Issue; 2 vols., 1028 pp.
Contributed by v belov on 29 May, 2012 - 10:59am
Additional contributions by Ted Kropiewnicki
Last updated 29 May, 2012 - 1:28pm

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