Cottonwood borer

Cottonwood borer
Plectrodera scalator
Cottonwood Borer next to quarter for size reference.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Cerambycidae
Subfamily: Lamiinae
Genus: Plectrodera
Dejean, 1837
Species: P. scalator
Binomial name
Plectrodera scalator
(Fabricius, 1792) [1]

The cottonwood borer, Plectrodera scalator, is a species of longhorn beetle found in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains that feeds on cottonwood trees.[2] Lengths can reach 40 millimetres (1.6 in) and widths 12 mm (0.47 in). It is the only species in the genus Plectrodera.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Plectrodera scalator (Fabricius, 1792)". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=703153. 
  2. ^ Eaton, Eric R.; Kenn Kaufman (2007). Kaufman field guide to insects of North America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 174–175. ISBN 9780618153107. 
  3. ^ Earle Gorton Linsley & John A. Chemsak (1984). Cerambycidae of North America. Part VII, No. 1: Taxonomy and Classification of the Subfamily Lamiinae, Tribes Parmenini Through Acanthoderini, Volume 114. Volume 102 of UC Publications in Entomology. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520096905. 


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