Wood-Boring Beetle Larvae
Feeding on American Beech
(Fagus grandifolia)

Scientific Name &
Common Name (if any)
Actenodes acornis*
Agrilus obsoletoguttatus*
Anthophylax attenuatus
(Mottled Longhorn Beetle)
Anthophylax viridis
Brachyleptura rubrica
Dryobius sexnotatus
(Six-Banded Longhorn Beetle)
Eucrada humeralis**
Goes pulverulentus
(Living Beech Borer)
Gracilia minuta
(Basket Longhorn Beetle)
Hoshihananomia octopunctata***
Leptura emarginata
Oplosia nubilis
(Mottled Gray-Brown Longhorn)
Parandra polita
Psyrassa unicolor
(The Branch Pruner)
Sphenostethus taslei
Tessaropa tenuipes
Xyleborus obsesus****
Xyloterinus politus****
Xylotrechus quadrimaculatus
(Birch & Beech Girdler)

*Buprestidae (Metallic Wood-Boring Beetles)
**Anobiidae (Death-Watch Beetles)
***Mordellidae (Tumbling Flower Beetles)
****Scolytidae (Bark Beetles)

Note: All species are in the Cerambycidae (Longhorn Beetles),
unless otherwise noted.

Sources: Yanega (1996), Majka et al. (2007),
Ford & Jackman (1996), Marshall (2006), MacRae (1991)

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