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County Record Source: E.G. Riley, Sept. 2006
Range: Southern California, Texas, Florida; northern Mexico, Honduras, Cuba, Bahamas (Monné & Hovore 2005)
Adult Activity:
February to November, mostly spring and fall in south Texas. (Hovore et al. 1987)
Mostly July through October in North Texas (Lingafelter & Horner 1993)
Larval Hosts:
Prosopis, Acacia, Pithecellobium, Platanus, Citrus, Leucaena (Hovore et al. 1987)
Behavior:
Adults are active day and night, running rapidly along freshly cut branches of their host plants and feeding on the blossoms of Koeberlinia, Acacia, Baccharis, Bumelia, Clematis, and Solidago (Hovore et al. 1987)
Similar species: There are four species of Placosternus (Monné & Hovore 2005)
Texas Taxa:
Placosternus difficilis (Chevrolat)
Placosternus erythropus (Chevrolat) - West and south TX, south to Costa Rica
Weblinks:
Wood Borers - TAMU
Placosternus difficilis - Florida State Collection of Arthropods
Etymology:
plac, -o (G). A tablet, plate; flat
stern, -o, =um (G). The breast, breastbone
Biography: Louis Alexandre Auguste Chevrolat - (1799 - 1884) was a French entomologist - 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. 1964. The Cerambycidae of North America. Part V. Taxonomy and classification of the subfamily Cerambycinae, tribes Callichromini through Ancylocerini. Univ. Calif. Publs Ent., Berkeley, 22: 1-197, 60 figs., 1 pl.
Manley, G.V., & J.V. French. 1976. Wood boring beetles inhabiting citrus in the Lower Rio Grande valley of Texas USA. Part 1. Cerambycidae. Journal of the Rio Grande Valley Horticultural Society 30:45–53.
Monné, M.A. & F.T. Hovore. 2005. Electronic Checklist of the Cerambycidae of the Western Hemisphere. 393 pp.
Vogt, B.G. 1949. Notes on Cerambycidae from the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 25(3):137-144; (4):175-184.
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