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Longicorn ID: Tool for Diagnosing Cerambycidae Subfamilies and Tribes
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Bolbotritus bainesi

Classification Diagnostic Features of Larvae
  • Mature larva. Resembling those of Plocaederus species, from which it may be distinguished as follows. Length up to 56 mm; maximum breadth (at prothorax) 15.5 mm. Head with mouthframe almost entirely pitchy. Hypostoma strongly rugose and subtuberculate. Prothorax with posterior area of pronotum macro-spiculate. Abdomen with ampullae coarsely tuberculate and macro-spiculate, the spicules very coarse and ferruginous. Legs with unguiculus stout and pitchy. Adapted from Duffy (1957).
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 Larvae Specimens

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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