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

Obriini

Classification

Introduction

The tribe Obriini Mulsant, 1839 currently contains 281 species in 43 genera. Photographs of 2 exemplar specimens are currently available for this tribe.

Diagnostic Features of Adults

Body moderate-sized, between 10-40 mm; generally elongate. Eyes generally reniform, complete (not completely divided into upper and lower lobes). Antennae generally filiform, unarmed; antennae 11-segmented, antennal length variable, from short (not extending beyond tip of abdomen) to long (extending beyond tip of abdomen). Pronotum generally elongate (distinctly longer than wide); lateral margins of pronotum variable, with distinct blunt tubercles or acute spines, or unarmed, (without tubercles or spines); pronotum shape variable, distinctly narrower basally or not. Mesocoxal cavities in relation to epimeron variable, open or closed. Elytral apices without distinct spines.

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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