Longicorn ID: Tool for Diagnosing Cerambycoid Families, Subfamilies, and Tribes (edition 2)
Longicorn ID: Tool for
Diagnosing Cerambycoid Families, Subfamilies, and Tribes
(edition 2)
ITP Collaborators:
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University of New Mexico
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Natural Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
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Systematic Entomology Lab (SEL), USDA
Authors: Eugenio H. Nearns,
Nathan P. Lord, Steven W. Lingafelter, Antonio Santos-Silva, & Kelly B.
Miller
Funding Support: Section 10201 of the 2008 Farm Bill
USDA
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s Identification Technology Program
(ITP) is pleased to announce the release of edition 2 of Longicorn ID.
Edition 2 adds a Lucid key and fact sheets for the 82 tribes of the subfamily
Lamiinae (Cerambycidae) to Longicorn ID. The update also adds dorsal
habitus photographs for 568 exemplar specimens representing the subfamily. Of
these new images, 251 represent holotype specimens, 30 represent syntype
specimens, and 4 represent lectotype specimens.
Cerambycoid beetles include four families and are considered
among the most serious wood-boring pest species in the world. Due to the large
size of this group, the development of Longicorn ID has been broken into
phases. When complete, Longicorn ID will provide identification support
to the four families, 14 subfamilies, and 250 tribes of Cerambycoid beetles.
Edition 3 of Longicorn ID, due out in early 2015, will include keys and
fact sheets for the tribes of the subfamilies Lepturinae and Cerambycinae.
Attached to this email is an
announcement containing an overview of ITP's new release for PPQ and its
partners. Please feel free to forward this email and/or the attachment to your
colleagues.
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You also might be interested in viewing ITP’s A Resource for Wood Boring Beetles of the World portal
