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Megacyllene decora

Description

Megacyllene decora (Olivier, 1800); Chlorophorini [new state record]

Distribution: Southern OH to OK to MN. Kentucky collections were from sites on the shores of the Ohio River (Interior Plateau and Mississippi Alluvial Plain; Map 098).

Kentucky counties: Carroll (1), Fulton (2)

Years: 2002 (1), 2003 (1), 2021 (1)

Months: September (3)

Collections (3 records, 3 specimens): CMNH (2), iNat (1)

Collection methods: nr

Larval host plants: Amorpha fruticosa (Rice 1989)

Adult flower hosts: Eutrochium and Solidago (Bousquet et al. 2017)

Comments: Its larval host plant is a shrub that grows on the banks and islands of larger rivers. Based on collections made by EGC in Ohio, it would not be surprising if this species occurs sporadically along the Ohio River in Kentucky wherever A. fruticosa grows and adults should be present on flowers (especially Solidago) in September and October.

Notes

Published as part of 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, pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 5229 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5229.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7546352

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Olivier
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Cerambycidae
Genus
Megacyllene
Species
decora
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Megacyllene decora (Olivier, 1800) sec. Chapman, Richards & Dupuis, 2023

References

  • Rice, M. E. (1989) Natural history observations on Tetraopes and other Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) from the Great Plains ecosystem. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 61, 412 - 419.
  • 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.