Oberea ulmicola Chittenden.

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 : 749

Oberea ulmicola Chittenden. New larval host

record.

This species was described by Chittenden (in Webster 1904) from Decatur, IL, who speculated, based on experimental data, that it is rather selective for Ulmus . It girdles terminal living twigs and constructs a pupal cell plugged with fibrous frass below a saddle-like girdle. JV reared one individual from a girdled sapling of Celtis laevigata Willd. from TX: Denton Co., Elm Fork Trinity River. Individuals were also reared from Ulmus from the same locality.