Australian Longhorn Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) Volume 1

Introduction and Subfamily Lamiinae

Adam Slipinski, Hermes E. Escalona, Hermes Escalona

• Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781486300037
• eBook ISBN:
  9781486300051
• Topic: Scienze biologiche
• Subtopic: Ecologia

Longhorn Beetles — Cerambycidae are one of the most easily recognised groups of beetles, a family that worldwide encompasses over 33,000 species in 5,200 genera. With over 1,400 species classified in 300 genera, this is the sixth largest among 117 beetle families in Australia.

These beetles often attack and kill living forest or orchard trees and develop in construction timber (like European House borer, introduced to WA), causing serious damages. Virtually all Cerambycidae feed on living or dead plant tissues and play a significant role in all terrestrial environments where plants are found. Larvae often utilise damaged or dead trees for their development, and through feeding on rotten wood form an important element of the saproxylic fauna, speeding energy circulation in these habitats. Many species are listed as quarantine pests because of their destructive role to the timber industry.

This volume provides a general introduction to the Australian Cerambycidae with sections on biology, phylogeny and morphology of adult and larvae, followed by the keys to the subfamilies and an overview of the 74 genera of the subfamily Lamiinae occurring in Australia. All Lamiinae genera are diagnosed, described and illustrated and an illustrated key to their identification is provided. A full listing of all included Australian species with synonymies and bibliographic citations is also included.

Biologists worldwide, curators and staff at natural history museums, quarantine/inspection services, entomologists and collectors - many of these beetles are collector's items.

Winner of the 2016 J.O. Westwood Medal
Winner of the 2014 Whitley Medal

Appendix 1:

New synonymies

New generic synonymies*

Allomicrus Gahan, 1893 = Illaena Erichson, 1842

Australiorondonia Breuning, 1982 = Ancita Thomson, 1864

Australothelais Breuning, 1963 = Amblymora Pascoe, 1867

Blaxotes McKeown, 1945 = Xylotoles Newman, 1840

Brachyrhabdus Aurivillius, 1917 = Stenellipsis Bates, 1874

Cairnsia Blackburn, 1895 = Rhytiphora Audinet-Serville, 1835

Cobria Pascoe, 1865 = Rhytiphora Audinet-Serville, 1835

Corestetha Pascoe, 1875 = Mesolita Pascoe, 1862

Corrhenes Pascoe, 1865 = Rhytiphora Audinet-Serville, 1835

Corrhenispia Breuning, 1938 = Rhytiphora Audinet-Serville, 1835

Corrhenodes Breuning, 1942 = Rhytiphora Audinet-Serville, 1835

Cristhybolasius Breuning, 1959 = Oricopis Pascoe, 1863

Cyrtillus Aurivillius, 1917 = Mesolita Pascoe, 1862

Depsages Pascoe, 1865 = Rhytiphora Audinet-Serville, 1835

Diasybra Breuning, 1959 = Sybra Pascoe, 1865

Eczemotes Pascoe, 1864 = Rhytiphora Audinet-Serville, 1835

Elasmotena McKeown, 1945 = Oricopis Pascoe, 1863

Epilystoides Breuning, 1939 = Sybra Pascoe, 1865

Etaxalus Pascoe, 1865 = Rhytiphora Audinet-Serville, 1835

Falsapolia Breuning, 1945 = Temnosternus White, 1855

Falsoceraegidion Breuning, 1950 = Dorcadida White, 1846

Hathliodes Pascoe, 1866 = Rhytiphora Audinet-Serville, 1835

Hestima Pascoe, 1867 = Sybra Pascoe, 1865

Hoplathemistus Aurivillius, 1917 = Athemistus Pascoe, 1859

Ischioplites Thomson, 1864 = Rhytiphora Audinet-Serville, 1835

Menyllus Pascoe, 1864 = Rhytiphora Audinet-Serville, 1835

Mesathemistus Breuning, 1950 = Athemistus Pascoe, 1859

Mesiphiastus Breuning, 1959 = Rhytiphora Audinet-Serville, 1835

Microtragoides Breuning, 1950 = Athemistus Pascoe, 1859

Mimiphiastus Breuning, 1978 = Rhytiphora Audinet-Serville, 1835

Mimofalsoropica Breuning, 1975 = Sybra Pascoe, 1865

Mimoricopis Breuning, 1969 = Oricopis Pascoe, 1863

Mimosaperdopsis Breuning, 1959 = Rhytiphora Audinet-Serville, 1835

Mimosybra Breuning, 1939 = Sybra Pascoe, 1865

Mimotemnosternus Breuning, 1949 = Didymocentrotus McKeown, 1945

Mimoxylotoles Breuning, 1962 = Microlamia Bates, 1874

Mimozygocera Breuning, 1963 = Bucynthia Pascoe, 1866

Mycerinopsis Thomson, 1864 = Sybra Pascoe, 1865

Neosybra Breuning, 1939a = Sybra Pascoe, 1865

Notocorrhenes Breuning, 1959 = Rhytiphora Audinet-Serville, 1835

Orinoeme Pascoe, 1867 = Sybra Pascoe, 1865

Paradaxata Breuning, 1938 = Rhytiphora Audinet-Serville, 1835

Paradisterna Breuning, 1959 = Disterna Thomson, 1864

Parahathlia Breuning, 1961 = Sybra Pascoe, 1865

Parahybolasius Breuning, 1982 = Disterna Thomson, 1864

Parapteridotelus Breuning, 1962 = Microlamia Bates, 1874

Pararhytiphora Breuning, 1938 = Rhytiphora Audinet-Serville, 1835

Temnosternopsis Breuning, 1939 = Temnosternus White, 1855

Trichohathliodes Breuning, 1959 = Rhytiphora Audinet-Serville, 1835

Trichopenthea Breuning, 1959 = Rhytiphora Audinet-Serville, 1835

Trichoprosoplus Breuning, 1961 = Rhytiphora Audinet-Serville, 1835

Trichozygocera Breuning, 1956b = Zygocera Dejean, 1835

Tuberothelais Breuning, 1963 = Temnosternus White, 1855

Tuberozygocera Breuning, 1974 = Demonassa Thomson, 1864

Xiphohathlia Breuning, 1961 = Rhytiphora Audinet-Serville, 1835

Xiphotheopsis Breuning, 1961 = Rhytiphora Audinet-Serville, 1835

Zaeeropsis Breuning, 1943 = Rhytiphora Audinet-Serville, 1835

Zygoceropsis Breuning, 1960 = Disterna Thomson, 1864

Zygrita Thomson, 1860 = Rhytiphora Audinet-Serville, 1835

[*junior synonym listed first]

New species synonymies*

Essisus vivesi Breuning, 1978 = Pentacosmia cacioides (Breuning, 1938)

Illaena meyricki Blackburn, 1889 = Neissa inconspicua Pascoe, 1866

Microtragus arachne obscurus Breuning, 1950 = Microtragus arachne Pascoe...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Dedication
• Abstract
• Acknowledgements
• Material and methods
• Family Cerambycidae
• Australian Cerambycidae
• Subfamily Lamiinae
• Review of the Australian genera of Lamiinae
• Lamiinae figures
• Appendix 1: New synonymies
• Appendix 2: New generic combinations proposed for Australian species
• Appendix 3: Type specimens, Australian and extra-Australian
• Bibliography
• Index of scientific names