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

Semanotus juniperi (Fisher) . 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.