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

Lissonotini

Classification

Introduction

The tribe Lissonotini Swainson, 1840 currently contains 24 species in 1 genus. Photographs of 2 exemplar specimens are currently available for this tribe.

Diagnostic Features of Adults

Body moderate-sized, between 10-40 mm; generally ovoid. Eyes generally reniform, complete (not completely divided into upper and lower lobes). Antennae generally serrate, flabellate, or expanded laterally, unarmed; antennae 11-segmented, short, not extending beyond tip of abdomen. Pronotum generally transverse (distinctly wider than long); lateral margins of pronotum variable, with distinct acute spines or not. Pronotal surface variable, distinctly shining, glabrous or not. Mesocoxal cavities open to mesepimeron. Elytral apices with distinct spines.

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

No records to show

Lissonotus andalgalensis
Bruch, 1908; dorsal
female specimen
Cerambycidae:Cerambycinae:Lissonotini
Photograph © A.M. Hodson


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