Atimia confusa (Say, 1826)

Chapman, Eric G., Richards, Austin B. & Dupuis, Julian R., 2023, The longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of Kentucky with notes on larval hosts, adult nectar use, and semiochemical attraction, Zootaxa 5229 (1), pp. 1-89 : 74-75

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5229.1.1

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scientific name

Atimia confusa (Say, 1826)
status

 

Atimia confusa (Say, 1826) View in CoL ; Atimiini

Distribution: NB to northern FL to south TX to CO. Kentucky specimens are from the north central part of the state ( Interior Plateau ; Map 019).

Kentucky counties: Fayette (3), Hardin (2)

Years: 1939 (1), 1946 (2), 1968 (2)

Months: April (3), October (2)

Collections (3 records, 5 specimens): EGCCRC (1), UKIC (3), WKUC (1)

Collection methods: nr

Larval host plants: Apparently restricted to Cupressaceae ( Chamaecyparis , Cupressus , Juniperus , Thuja ) ( Bousquet et al. 2017)

Comments: Attracted to lights. Unbaited Lindgren funnel traps ( Webster et al. 2016) and beating recently dead host tree branches ( Bousquet et al. 2017) are effective collecting methods.

Bousquet, Y., Laplante, S., Hammond, H. E. J. & Langor, D. W. (2017) Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska: identification guide with nomenclatural, taxonomic, distributional, host-plant, and ecological data. Nakladatelstvi Jan Farkac, Prague, 300 pp.

Webster, R. P., Alderson, C. A., Webster, V. L., Hughes, C. C. & Sweeney, J. D. (2016) Further contributions to the longhorn beetle (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) fauna of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Canada. ZooKeys, 552, 109 - 122. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 552.6039

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cerambycidae

Genus

Atimia