Purpuricenus paraxillaris MacRae, 2000

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 : 27

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CD98B371-D713-457E-A2D4-504F5AB0CAC5

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7E6F5F56-FFB1-FFAC-CCCF-FDD9FD233694

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Purpuricenus paraxillaris MacRae, 2000
status

 

Purpuricenus paraxillaris MacRae, 2000 View in CoL ; Trachyderini [new state record]

Distribution: Southern PA to FL to TX to KS. All Kentucky specimens of this species were collected in the Western Allegheny Plateau just east of Berea (Map 157).

Kentucky counties: Madison (16)

Years: 2009 (1), 2010 (4), 2011 (1), 2013 (9), 2017 (1)

Months: May (1), June (10), July (4), August (1)

Collections (10 records, 16 specimens): ABRC (8), EGCCRC (7), PDBC (1)

Collection methods: Sugar trap (15)

Larval host plants: Castanea dentata and Quercus spp. ( Monné & Nearns 2022c)

Comments: Attracted to fermenting sugar traps.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cerambycidae

Genus

Purpuricenus

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