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Oxypeltidae

Classification
  • Family Oxypeltidae
Introduction
  • The family Oxypeltidae Lacordaire, 1868 currently contains 3 species in 2 genera. Photographs of all described species are available for this family. This small family has traditionally been classified as a subfamily of Cerambycidae.
Diagnostic Features of Adults
  • Robust, glabrous and brightly colored beetles, with moderately long antennae on raised insertions (Lawrence, 2007).
  • Length 15-34 mm. Antenna 11-segmented, serrate. Insertions exposed. Prosternal process complete. Procoxae not projecting, with exposed trochantins. Procoxal cavities strongly transverse, externally and internally closed. Mesocoxal cavities moderately widely separated, laterally open. Tarsi pseudotetramerous. Abdomen with 5 free ventrites. Prothorax distinctly narrower than elytral bases; lateral pronotal carinae absent (but flattened, dorsolateral processes in Cheloderus); elytral apices each with 2 spines (Lawrence, 2007).
Diagnostic Features of Larvae
  • Not yet available for this taxon.
Geographic Distribution of Family Biology and Economic Importance
  • Adults on plant surfaces; larvae feed on the wood of angiosperms, especially Nothofagus (Lawrence, 2007).
Selected References to Adult Specimens
Selected References to Larvae Specimens



Cheloderus childreni
Gray, 1832; dorsal
♂ specimen
Oxypeltidae
Photograph © N.P. Lord




Cheloderus childreni
Gray, 1832; head
♂ specimen
Oxypeltidae
Photograph © N.P. Lord



Cheloderus childreni
Gray, 1832; lateral
♂ specimen
Oxypeltidae
Photograph © N.P. Lord



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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