Lymexyloidea, Fleming, 1821

Peck, Stewart B., 2016, The beetles of the Lesser Antilles (Insecta, Coleoptera): diversity and distributions, Insecta Mundi 2016 (460), pp. 1-360 : 121-122

Superfamily Lymexyloidea

85. FAMILY LYMEXYLIDAE , theship-timber beetles

These moderately large and extremely elongate beetles are unique in having very reduced elytra and no transverse fold in the hind wing. The larvae bore in dead wood and are associated with ambrosia fungi.

Atractocerus braziliensis Lepeletier and Audinet-Serville 1825: 309 ; Blackwelder 1944-1957: 408; Spilman 1971: 7; Bennettand Alam 1985: 24; Ivieet al. 2008b: 248; Perez-Gelabert 2008: 105. Distribution. Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Montserrat, PuertoRico, St. Lucia * (also in Daltry 2009: 66), St. Vincent, Union*. Mexico , Central Americato Brazil and Argentina; widespread Antilles and Latin America . Notes. Adults are attracted to lights and larvae live in dying trunks and logs of various trees. There is much variation in body length. Plate 28. The figure is of Atractocerus brevicornis (L.) of west Africa but this is very similar to the Lesser Antilles species.