Semanotus juniperi (Fisher)

Heffern, Daniel J., Vlasak, Josef & Alten, Ronald L., 2018, Larval Host Plant Records, Distributional Records, and Biological Information on North American Cerambycidae (Coleoptera), The Coleopterists Bulletin 72 (4), pp. 739-750 : 746

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1649/0010-065X-72.4.739

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1A26C542-FF07-4973-FD3D-8CACD08AFC78

treatment provided by

Diego

scientific name

Semanotus juniperi (Fisher)
status

 

Semanotus juniperi (Fisher) View in CoL . New larval host

record.

DJH collected four adults from TX: Real Co., 11 mi. NW Leakey, III-19-1989 as they were resting on the trunk of living Juniperus ashei J. Buchholz. The emergence holes were about 1–2 m above ground and visible from the nearby road. In 1998, on a private ranch near Concan, Uvalde Co., a rancher (J. S. Graves, Jr.) showed DJH an area where hundreds of mature J. ashei had been severely attacked by this beetle, resulting in the death or weakening of many trees. Upwards of 20 or more emergence holes per trunk were counted on many trees up to heights of several meters. The rancher had forwarded one of the beetles he collected during emergence to E. G. Riley (TAMU) for identification.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cerambycidae

Genus

Semanotus

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