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Piezocerini

Classification Introduction
  • The tribe Piezocerini Lacordaire, 1868 currently contains 112 species in 19 genera. Photographs of 9 exemplar specimens are currently available for this tribe.
Diagnostic Features of Adults
  • Body size variable, from small (less than 10 mm) to moderate-sized (between 10-40 mm); generally elongate. Eyes generally reniform, complete (not completely divided into upper and lower lobes). Antennae generally serrate, flabellate, or expanded laterally, unarmed; antennae 11-segmented, antennal length variable, from short (not extending beyond tip of abdomen) to long (extending beyond tip of abdomen). Pronotum variable, from generally elongate (distinctly longer than wide) to subquadrate (about as long as wide) or transverse (distinctly wider than long); lateral margins of pronotum variable, with distinct blunt tubercles or not; pronotal shape variable, distinctly narrower basally or not. Mesocoxal cavities closed to mesepimeron. Elytral markings variable, with distinct, raised, yellowish markings (not formed by setae) or not; elytral apices variable, with distinct spines or not.
Diagnostic Features of Larvae
  • Not yet available for this taxon.
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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Gorybia guenda
Galileo & Martins, 2013; dorsal
Cerambycidae:Cerambycinae:Piezocerini
Photograph © G.D. Ouellette




Gorybia suturella
Martins, 1976; dorsal
Cerambycidae:Cerambycinae:Piezocerini
Photograph © A.M. Hodson




Haruspex bivittus
(White, 1855); dorsal
Cerambycidae:Cerambycinae:Piezocerini
Photograph © A.M. Hodson



All Piezocerini exemplar species images
 

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Longicorn ID last updated 2020  E.H. Nearns, N.P. Lord, S.W. Lingafelter, A. Santos-Silva, K.B. Miller, & J.M. Zaspel