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Fire-necked Batyle Beetle

Batyle ignicollis ignicollis (Say, 1824)

Family Cerambycidae, Subfamily Cerambycinae, Tribe Trachyderini


 

Batyle ignicollis ignicollis (Say, 1824)

Utley, Bastrop County, Texas
April 16, 2007 (Brush Freeman)

Found on Pyracantha


Range: Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Missouri.

Adult Activity: Two generations per year, based on record from April through June and August through September. (Lingafelter & Horner, 1993)

Hosts: Larvae are stem borers in herbaceous plants, shrubs (e.g., sumac), adults are common on sunflowers (Yanega, 1996)

Similar Species: There are five species of Batyle, (and 10 subspecies), the following species occur in Texas:

Batyle ignicollis ignicollis (Say) 1824
Batyle suturalis cylindrella Casey 1893
Batyle suturalis melanicollis Linsley 1957

Photo: Batyle ignicollis - BugGuide.Net

Etymology: Batyle ignicollis

ign, -e, -i (L). Fire
coll, -i (L). The neck

Biography: Thomas Say (1787 – 1834) - Wikipedia


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Lingafelter, S.W. & N.V. Horner. 1993. The Cerambycidae of north-central Texas. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 47(2): 159-191.

Linsley, E.G. 1962. The Cerambycidae of North America. Part III. Taxonomy and classification of the subfamily Cerambycinae, tribes Opsimini through Megaderini. University of California Publications in Entomology, 20:1-188, 56 figs.

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Rice, M.E. 1981. Notes on Cerambycidae from Missouri. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 35(4): 459-462. 

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Snow, F.H. 1906. List of Coleoptera Collected in New Mexico by the Entomological Expeditions of the University of Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 20: 165-189.

Taber, S.W. & S.B. Fleenor. 2003. Insects of the Texas Lost Pines. Texas A&M University, College Station. 283 pp.

Yanega, D. 1996. Field guide to northeastern longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, 6:1-184.


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