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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Series Cucujiformia » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Longhorn Beetles (Cerambycidae) » Cerambycinae » Bothriospilini » Knulliana » Banded Hickory Borer (Knulliana cincta)

Species Knulliana cincta - Banded Hickory Borer

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Knulliana cincta cincta? - Knulliana cincta

Knulliana cincta sonorensis (Schaeffer) - Knulliana cincta

Knulliana cincta - Banded Hickory Borer? - Knulliana cincta

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)

No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)

Superfamily Chrysomeloidea (Longhorn and Leaf Beetles)

Family Cerambycidae (Longhorn Beetles)

Subfamily Cerambycinae

Tribe Bothriospilini

Genus Knulliana

Species cincta (Banded Hickory Borer)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Knulliana cincta (Drury)

Orig. Comb: Cerambyx cinctus Drury, 1773

Yanega (1996) speculates that at least one more species and one subspecies are yet to be named(1)

Explanation of Names

cincta (L). 'girdled' (2)

Size

15-35 mm

Identification

Range

e US, AZ - Map (3)(4)

Food

Larvae feed on dead and seasoned branches/limbs of hardwoods, including oak and hickory.

Juglans, Carya, Castanea, Quercus, Celtis, Pyrus, Sapindus, Salix(5), Prosopis (Hovore & Giesbert 1976), Citrus (Dean 1953), Leucaena (Hovore & Penrose 1982)

Life Cycle

Eggs are laid in crevices in the bark, or directly into the wood; larvae feed the first season beneath the bark, then head deeper into the wood(6)

Print References

Dean H.A. (1953) Long-horned beetles that attack Citrus in the lower Rio Grande valley of Texas. J. Econ. Ent. 46: 174.

Hovore F.T., Giesbert E.F. (1976) Notes on the ecology and distribution of western Cerambycidae. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 30(4): 349-360.

Hovore F.T., Penrose R.L. (1982) Notes on Cerambycidae coinhabiting girdles of Oncideres pustulata LeConte. Southwestern Naturalist 27: 23-27.

Internet References

Texas Entomology - Quinn 2007

Works Cited

1.	Field Guide to Northeastern Longhorned Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) Douglas Yanega. 1996. Illinois Natural History Survey.

2.	Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms Donald J. Borror. 1960. Mayfield Publishing Company.

3.	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.

4.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

5.	The Cerambycidae of North America. Part III. ...subfamily Cerambycinae, tribes Opsimini through Megaderini E.G. Linsley. 1962. University of California Publications in Entomology 20: 1-188.

6.	A Manual of Common Beetles of Eastern North America Dillon, Elizabeth S., and Dillon, Lawrence. 1961. Row, Peterson, and Company.

Contributed by Stephen_WV on 7 September, 2004 - 5:34am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Mike Quinn, v belov, Ken Childs
Last updated 11 January, 2023 - 12:02am

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