Lepturinae

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Lepturinae
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Central European Lepturini and Rhagiini
with some anatomical details
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Cerambycidae
Subfamily: Lepturinae
Tribes

See text

Diversity
5–7 tribes
About 150 genera
Synonyms
  • Dérécéphalides Mulsant,
  • Lepturadae Samouelle,
  • Lepturida Leach,
  • Lepturidae Stephens,
  • Lepturides Mulsant,
  • Lepturites Newman,
  • Lepturetae Latreille
Pseudovadonia livida in copula
Rhagium inquisitor, larva Rhagium inquisitor2.jpg
Rhagium inquisitor, larva

Lepturinae, the lepturine beetles, is a subfamily of the longhorn beetle family (Cerambycidae), containing about 150 genera worldwide. This lineage is most diverse in the Northern Hemisphere. Until recently the subfamily Necydalinae was included within the lepturines, but this has been recently recognized as a separate subfamily. Nine tribes are usually recognized today, [1] with a tenth, Caraphiini, created in 2016. [2] A few genera are of uncertain placement within the subfamily.

Contents

Usually among the smaller members of their family, these beetles are of a slender shape particularly the thorax is markedly less wide than the wings, while the elytra tips are often pointed. They differ from most other longhorn beetles in that the antennae are not directly adjacent to the compound eyes. Hence, the latter are generally oval in outline, rather than having an indentation where the antennae originate, or even being divided by them. In addition, sexual dichromatism is not infrequently seen in lepturines; usually, longhorn beetles are not dimorphic or only have longer antennae in males.

Tribes and genera

Lepturinae contains the following genera, [2] [1] [3] in more than ten tribes:

Desmocerus californicus Valley elderberry longhorn beetle FWS.jpg
Desmocerus californicus
Xylosteus spinolae Xylo.JPG
Xylosteus spinolae
Grammoptera ruficornis Grammoptera ruficornis (Fabricius, 1781) (3636411046).jpg
Grammoptera ruficornis

Tribe Caraphiini

Desmocerini Blanchard, 1845

Encyclopini

Authority: LeConte, 1873

Lepturini

Authority: Latreille, 1802; selected genera: (complete list is on the Lepturini page)

Oxymirini

Authority: Danilevsky, 1997

Rhagiini

Authority: Kirby, 1837

Rhamnusiini

Authority: Sama, 2009

Sachalinobiini Danilevsky, 2010
Tribe Teledapini Pascoe, 1871

Xylosteini

Authority: Reitter, 1913

Incertae sedis

References

  1. 1 2 Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88). Pensoft Publishers: 1–972. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.88.807 . ISSN   1313-2989. PMC   3088472 . PMID   21594053.
  2. 1 2 Ohbayashi, Nobuo; Lin, Mei-Ying; Yamasako, Junsuke Yamasako (2016). "Revision of the Caraphiini, New Tribe (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lepturinae)". Zootaxa. 4084 (2): 187–217. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4084.2.2. PMID   27394259.
  3. Bezark, Larry G. "A Photographic Catalog of the Cerambycidae of the New World". Archived from the original on 2019-07-19. Retrieved 2018-12-11.
  4. Vitali, Francesco (2005). "Notes about European fossil Lepturinae and the description of a new species (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lepturinae)". Lambillionea. CV (4): 530–538. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.626.9431 .