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Range: Eastern North America to western Texas, south to northern Mexico (Hovore et al. 1987)
Adult Activity: March to October in North Central Texas (Lingafelter & Horner, 1993)
Larval Hosts:
Juglans, Carya, Castanea, Quercus, Celtis, Pyrus, Sapindus, Salix (Linsley 1962), Prosopis (Hovore & Giesbert 1976), Citrus (Dean 1953), Leucaena (Hovore & Penrose 1982)
Note:
Abundant at night on limbs and trunks of newly felled hackberry, huisache, and tepehuaje in May and October, but only occasionally attracted to lights (Hovore et al. 1987). Lingafelter & Horner (1993) collected 122 specimens in light-traps, from lights, syrup traps, pool skimmer baskets, and from the trunks of trees.
Similar Species: Only one North American species of Knulliana with three subspecies (Monné & Hovore 2005)
cincta cincta (Drury) - eNAmer-TX, nMexico (NL, SO)
cincta sonorensis (Schaeffer) - swUSA (TX, AZ), nMexico (SO)
cincta spinifera (Fabricius) - seUSA, neMexico, W Indies (Bahamas)
Weblinks:
Knulliana c. cincta (Drury) - Florida State
Etymology: cinct (L). Girdled
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.
Dean, H.A. 1953. Long-horned beetles that attack Citrus in the lower Rio Grande valley of Texas. Journal of Economic Entomology 46(1):174.
Hovore, F.T. & E.F. Giesbert. 1976. Notes on the ecology and distribution of western Cerambycidae. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 30(4):349-360.
Hovore, F.T. & R.L. Penrose 1982. Notes on Cerambycidae coinhabiting girdles of Oncideres pustulata LeConte. Southwestern Naturalist, 27(1): 23 - 27.
Hovore, F.T., R.L. Penrose & R.W. Neck 1987. The Cerambycidae, or longhorned beetles, of southern Texas: a faunal survey. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 44(13): 283-344, 20 figs.
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. Univ. Calif. Publ. Entomol., 20:1-188, 56 figs.
Monné, M.A. & F.T. Hovore. 2005. Electronic Checklist of the Cerambycidae of the Western Hemisphere. 393 pp.
Yanega, D. 1996. Field guide to northeastern longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, 6:1-184.
21 Apr 2007 © Mike Quinn / mike.quinn@tpwd.state.tx.us / Texas Entomology / Texas Beetle Information