Phymatodes varius (Fabricius, 1776)

Chapman, Eric G., Richards, Austin B. & Dupuis, Julian R., 2023, The longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of Kentucky with notes on larval hosts, adult nectar use, and semiochemical attraction, Zootaxa 5229 (1), pp. 1-89 : 25

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scientific name

Phymatodes varius (Fabricius, 1776)
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Phymatodes varius (Fabricius, 1776) View in CoL ; Callidiini [new state record]

Distribution: Southern PQ to NC to southern AZ to IA. The few Kentucky specimens were collected in the north-central part of the state ( Interior Plateau and Western Allegheny Plateau (Map 140).

Kentucky counties: Campbell (1), Fayette (1), Rowan (2), nr (2)

Years: 1916 (1), 1981 (2), 2017 (1), nr (2)

Months: April (1), May (2), June (1), nr (2)

Collections (6 records, 6 specimens): UKIC (3), UMRM (2), XEUC (1)

Collection methods: Quercus wood pile (2); panel trap baited with Ray lab blend (1)

Larval host plants: Carya ( Lingafelter 2007) , Quercus spp. , and Vitis ( Monné & Nearns 2022c)

Chemical lures: A blend of: 3-hydroxyhexan-2-one + (2 R *,3 R *)-2,3-hexanediol + racemic (E)-fuscumol + racemic (E)-fuscumol acetate + monochamol + racemic 2-methylbutan-1-ol ( Hanks & Millar 2013)

Comments: Adults can be collected by beating dead and dying oak ( Quercus alba and Q. macrocarpa ) branches ( Bousquet et al. 2017).

Bousquet, Y., Laplante, S., Hammond, H. E. J. & Langor, D. W. (2017) Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska: identification guide with nomenclatural, taxonomic, distributional, host-plant, and ecological data. Nakladatelstvi Jan Farkac, Prague, 300 pp.

Hanks, L. M. & Millar, J. G. (2013) Field bioassays of cerambycid pheromones reveal widespread parsimony of pheromone structures, enhancement by host plant volatiles, and antagonism by components from heterospecifics. Chemoecology, 23, 21 - 44. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 00049 - 012 - 0116 - 8

Lingafelter, S. W. (2007) Illustrated key to the longhorned woodboring beetles of the Eastern United States. Coleopterists Society Miscellaneous Publication. Special Publication. The Coleopterists Society, North Potomac, Maryland, 206 pp.

Monne, M. A. & Nearns, E. H. (2022 c) Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of Canada and United States of America. Part III. Subfamily Cerambycinae. Available from: https: // cerambycids. com / default. asp? action = show _ catalog (accessed 24 December 2022)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cerambycidae

Genus

Phymatodes