Long-Horned Beetle Larvae
Feeding on Pines (Pinus spp.)

Long-Horned Beetle Species  
Scientific Name &
Common Name (if any)
Comments (if any)
Acmaeops discoidea  
Amniscus sexgutta feeds under bark
Arhopales foveicolle mines bases of dead trees
Arhopales rusticus obsoletus mines bases & roots of dead trees
Asemum striatus mines recently dead trees
Brachyleptura champlaini  
Callidium schotti feeds under bark
Callidium violaceus feeds under bark, introduced from Europe
Ceratographis biguttata borrows through branches
Chalcophora virginiensis*
(Flat-Headed Pine Heartwood Borer)
 
Clytus marginicollis feeds under bark of broken branches
Cyrtophorus verrucosum feeds on dead trees
Distenia undata  
Eupogonius tomentosa  
Goes pulverulentus
(Living Beech Borer)
feeds on heartwood of living trees
Gnathacmaeops pratensis  
Heterachthes ebenus mines dead branches
Leptura plebeja  
Leptura subhamata feeds on decaying wood
Monochamus carolinensis mines dead & dying trees
Monochamus mutator
(Spotted Pine Sawyer)
mines dead & dying trees
Monochamus notatus
(Northeast Sawyer)
mines dead & dying trees
Monochamus scutellatus
(White-Spotted Sawyer)
mines dead & dying trees
Monochamus titillator
(Southern Pine Sawyer)
mines dead & dying trees
Neacanthocinus obsoletus mines bark of dead & dying trees
Phymatodes testaceus
(Tanbark Borer)
feeds in & under bark
Prionus pocularis feeds on dead logs & stumps
Rhagium inquisitor
(Ribbed Pine Borer)
bores into cambium of dead trees
Sachalinobia rugipennis  
Spondylis upiformis probably feeds on roots
Stictoleptura canadensis
(Red-Shouldered Pine Borer)
 
Strangalepta pubera  
Tetropium schwarzianum  
Tilloclytus geminatus bores into dead branches
Tomicus piniperda
(Pine Shoot Beetle)
introduced from Eurasia
Tragosoma depsarius
(Hairy Pine Borer)
bores into sapwood of decaying logs
Tylocerina nodosus bores through bark of dead & dying trees
Typocerus lugubris  
Typocerus sparsus feeds on decaying wood
Xylotrechus sagittatus sagittatus bores through dead trees
Xylotrechus schaefferi feeds on cones

*Buprestidae

Note: All species are in the Cerambycidae,
except as noted above

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