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

Sestyrini

Classification

Introduction

The tribe Sestyrini Lacordaire, 1868 currently contains 73 species in 5 genera. Photographs of 1 exemplar specimen 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; with or without metallic reflection. Eyes not distinctly emarginate, not surrounding antennal insertions and forming two distinct lobes (upper and lower). Antennae generally filiform, unarmed; antennae 11-segmented, short, not 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 unarmed, without distinct spines or tubercles. Elytral apices variable, with distinct spines or not. Metafemora generally distinctly longer than profemora.

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

Apiogaster frischi
Adlbauer, 2003; dorsal
Cerambycidae:Cerambycinae:Sestyrini


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