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

Heteropsini

Classification

Introduction

The tribe Heteropsini Lacordaire, 1868 currently contains 176 species in 29 genera. Photographs of 7 exemplar specimen are currently available for this tribe.

Diagnostic Features of Adults

Body moderate-sized, between 10-40 mm; generally ovoid or elongate; with or without metallic reflection. Eyes generally reniform, complete (not completely divided into upper and lower lobes). Antennae generally filiform, armed with spines or not; antennae 11-segmented, long, extending beyond tip of abdomen. Pronotum variable, from generally subquadrate (about as long as wide) to transverse (distinctly wider than long); lateral margins of pronotum variable, with distinct acute spines or not. Elytral apices with distinct spines. Metafemoral length variable, from generally distinctly longer than profemora to about as long as profemora; metafemora variable, with distinct spine at apex or not.

Diagnostic Features of Larvae

Geographic Distribution of Tribe

Biology and Economic Importance

Biology unknown for members of this tribe. 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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Chrysoprasis hypocrita
Erichson, 1847; dorsal
♂ specimen
Cerambycidae:Cerambycinae:Heteropsini
Photograph © A.M. Hodson

All Heteropsini exemplar species images


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