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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Longhorn and Leaf Beetles (Chrysomeloidea) » Longhorn Beetles (Cerambycidae) » Flower Longhorn Beetles (Lepturinae) » Lepturini » Leptura

Genus Leptura

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · Works Cited
Flower Longhorn - Leptura hovorei Leptura abdominalis Leptura sequoiae (Hopping, 1934) - Leptura sequoiae - female Leptura kerniana Fall, 1907 - Leptura kerniana - female Leptura kerniana Fall, 1907 - Leptura kerniana - male Leptura kerniana Leptura pacifica Leptura kerniana? - Leptura kerniana
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 Lepturinae (Flower Longhorn Beetles)
Tribe Lepturini
Genus Leptura
Explanation of Names
Leptura Linnaeus 1758
Numbers
6 spp. in the New World, all in the nominate subgenus and all in our area(1); ~70 spp. total(1)
Range
holarctic; in our area, L. abdominalis in e US, the rest in OR-CA(1)
Food
Larvae feed in dead, usually moist wood, and show little host preference(2)
Works Cited
1.New World Cerambycidae Catalog
2.Peterson Field Guides: Beetles
Richard E. White. 1983. Houghton Mifflin Company.
Contributed by Stephen_WV on 10 September, 2004 - 7:15am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 1 October, 2023 - 2:37pm

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