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Curated in the TAMUIC
Range: Cameron County, Texas south to Honduras
The two Texas (Cameron Co.) records are from about 1900 and 1990. (Dan Heffern, pers. comm., 2007)
Habitat: Associated with Palms in Central America and Texas.
Similar species: Two species in Agallissus, but only Agallissus lepturoides reaches the United States
Agallissus lepturoides (Chevrolat in Orbigny) 1844 = south Texas, Mexico-Honduras
Agallissus melaniodes Dalman 1823 = Mexico-Honduras
Collecting Methods:
Best to carefully search host plants or use a malaise trap, Lindgren funnel, or flight intercept trap as this species is apparently not attracted to lights or sugar (Dan Heffern, pers. comm. 2007). Insect Collecting Information
Other U.S. Palm-associated Cerambycidae:
Tribe Agallissini:
Zagymnus clerinus (LeConte) - Florida, Georgia - (Is on the cover of: The Cerambycidae of Florida)
Osmopleura chamaeropis (Horn 1893) - Florida, Georgia, one record from Texas
Etymology: Agallissus lepturoides (Chevrolat in Orbigny, 1844)
agall, -o (G). Adorn
lept, -ale, -ino, -o (G). Fine, slender
-oid (G). Like; form
Biography:
Louis Alexandre Auguste Chevrolat - (1799 - 1884) was a French entomologist - Wikipedia
Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (1802 -1857) was a French naturalist - Wikipedia
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M.C. Thomas, P.E. Skelley & J.H. Frank. (editors). 2002. American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. 861 pp.
Chevrolat, L.A.A. 1842-49. In: C.D. d'Orbigny, Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle. Paris. 13 vols.+ 3 vols. plates.
Hovore, F.T., R.L. Penrose & R.W. Neck. 1987. The Cerambycidae, or longhorned beetles, of southern Texas: a faunal survey (Coleoptera). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 44(13): 283-334, 20 figs.
Monné, M.A. & F.T. Hovore. 2005. Electronic Checklist of the Cerambycidae of the Western Hemisphere. 393 pp.
10 Dec 2008 © Mike Quinn / Texas Entomology / Texas Beetle Information
