Longicorn ID: Tool for Diagnosing Cerambycoid Families, Subfamilies, and Tribes

Elaphidiini

Classification

Introduction

The tribe Elaphidiini Thomson, 1864 currently contains 599 species in 91 genera. Photographs of 39 exemplar specimens are currently available for this tribe.

Diagnostic Features of Adults

Body size variable, from small (less than 10 mm) to large-sized (more than 40 mm); generally elongate. Head width compared to pronotum variable, distinctly wider than pronotum or not. Eyes generally reniform, complete (not completely divided into upper and lower lobes). Antennae generally filiform, rarely serrate, flabellate, or expanded laterally, armed with spines or not; antennae 11-segmented, long, extending beyond tip of abdomen. Pronotum variable, from generally elongate (distinctly longer than wide) to approximately subquadrate (about as long as wide); lateral margins of pronotum variable, with distinct blunt tubercles or acute spines, or unarmed (without tubercles or spines); pronotum shape rarely narrower basally. Mesocoxal cavities in relation to epimeron variable, generally open, rarely closed. Elytra shape rarely distinctly acuminate (forming an acute point); elytra rarely with distinct, raised, yellowish markings (not formed by setae), elytral apices variable, with distinct spines or not. Metafemora generally as long as profemora, rarely distinctly longer.

Diagnostic Features of Larvae

Geographic Distribution of Tribe

Biology and Economic Importance

Members of this tribe are known from various host plant families. Species of this tribe are potentially invasive outside their native range.

Selected References to Adult Specimens

Selected References to Larvae Specimens

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