Aegomorphus modestus Classification Family Cerambycidae > Subfamily Lamiinae > Tribe Acanthoderini > Genus Aegomorphus Diagnostic Features of Larvae Larva. Form short, rather robust, cylindrical; integument firm, white, shining, sparsely clothed with dirty brownish hairs. Head depressed, sides slightly constricted before middle; epistoma straight; labrum about one and one-half times as long as wide, anterior half sparsely hairy; mandible black, shining, from side about twice as long as condylar width, cutting edge very obliquely emarginate; antennal ring open; one pair of rather indistinct ocelli. Ventral mouth-parts thick, rather hairy; mentum not defined at base, sunken; maxillary palpal joints subequal, last equal to last labial; ligula large; anterior edge of hypostoma curved, distinct; gula not distinct. Prothorax rectangular, thick, widest about middle; pronotum anteriorly smooth, chitinized, a dense row of hairs across front, posteriorly shining, rugulose; prosternum hairy; eusternum and sternellum rugulose, shining, former faintly distinct. Mesonotum shining, metanotum, mesosternum, and metasternum shining, tuberculate. Abdomen cylindrical, slightly narrowing posteriorly; ampullae bearing two rows of large, irregularly defined tubercles; epipleurum protuberant only on last segments; tubercle broadly oval, bearing two or three setae and two large distinct, chitinous pits. Spiracles orbicular, peritreme slightly chitinized. No caudal spine. Adapted from Craighead (1923). Biology and Economic Importance Members of this tribe are known from various host plant families and several species are considered economically important. Species of this tribe are potentially invasive outside their native range. Selected References to Larvae Specimens Craighead, 1923