Longicorn ID: Tool for Diagnosing Cerambycoid Families, Subfamilies, and Tribes

Torneutini

Classification

Introduction

The tribe Torneutini Thomson, 1861 currently contains 51 species in 16 genera. Photographs of 10 exemplar specimens are currently available for this tribe.

Diagnostic Features of Adults

Body size variable, from moderate (between 10-40 mm) to large-sized (more than 40 mm); generally elongate. Eyes generally reniform, complete (not completely divided into upper and lower lobes). Antennae generally serrate, flabellate, or expanded laterally, unarmed; antennae 11-segmented, antennal length variable, from short (not extending beyond tip of abdomen) to long (extending beyond tip of abdomen). Pronotum variable, from generally subquadrate (about as long as wide) to transverse (distinctly wider than long); lateral margins of pronotum variable, with distinct blunt tubercles or without. Elytral markings variable, with distinct, raised, yellowish markings (not formed by setae) or without; elytral apices variable, with or without distinct spines. Wings variable, from complete to absent or reduced.

Diagnostic Features of Larvae

Geographic Distribution of Tribe

Biology and Economic Importance

Biology unknown for members of this tribe. Species of this tribe are potentially invasive outside their native range.

Selected References to Adult Specimens

Selected References to Larvae Specimens

All Torneutini exemplar species images


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