Texas Beetle Information

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Spotted Apple Tree Borer

Saperda cretata Newman

Family Cerambycidae, Subfamily Lamiinae, Tribe Saperdini

male, collected on blooming hawthorn (Crataegus sp.)

Grimes County, Texas
March 12, 2006 (Dan Heffern)

Texas County Records for Saperda cretata

County Record Data from E.G. Riley, March 2006

Range: Eastern North America, to east Texas

Adult Activity: Mid-March to mid-April in Texas

Larval Hosts: Hawthorn is the larval host plant

Similar Species: There are 15 species of Saperda, most occur in eastern North America (Monné & Hovore, 2002).

Texas Taxa:

Saperda calcarata Say
Saperda cretata Newman
Saperda lateralis Fabricius
Saperda puncticollis Say
Saperda tridentata Olivier

Web Link: Saperda cretata Newman - Florida State Collection of Arthropods

Etymology: cret, =a (L). Chalk

References:

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.

Borror, D.J. 1960. Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms. National Press Books, Palo Alto. 134 pp.

Linsley E.G. & Chemsak J.A. 1995. Cerambycidae of North America. Part VII, No. 2. Taxonomy and Classification of the Subfamily Lamiinae, Tribes Acanthocinini through Hemilophini. University of California publications in Entomology, 114: 1-292.

Monné, M.A. & F.T. Hovore. 2005. Electronic Checklist of the Cerambycidae of the Western Hemisphere. 393 pp.

Solomon, J.D. 1995. Guide to Insect Borers in North American Broadleaf Trees and Shrubs. USDA Forest Service Agriculture Handbook 706, Washington, DC.

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