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Acrocinus longimanus

Classification Diagnostic Features of Larvae
  • Larva. Form elongate, strongly depressed; integument firm, covered with short, rather stiff hairs. Head very strongly depressed, sides regularly and strongly converging posteriorly; epistoma straight; labrum a little wider than long, broadly rounded, widest near base; mandible slender, elongate, length about three times condylar width, cutting-edge shallowly emarginate, antennal ring faintly bisected by frontal suture. Ventral mouth-parts elongate; mentum twice as wide as long, distinct; last joint of maxillary palpus shorter than penultimate, much shorter than last labial; anterior edge of hypostoma straight; gula not distinct. Prothorax depressed; pronotum posteriorly beset with chitinous, conical papillae, as also are the ampullae; pleural tubercles broadly oval, having a chitinous pit at each extremity and five or six setae; spiracles broadly oval, peritreme thin. Adapted from Craighead (1923).
Biology and Economic Importance
  • Acrocinus longimanus is commonly collected at lights and on dead or dying trees, especially strangler fig (Ficus spp.). This species is known from a variety of host plant families, including the economically important families Fabaceae and Sterculiaceae.
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