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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
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Leptura
Genus
Leptura
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