BORERS: Asian & citrus longhorned & look-alikes (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) Anoplophora glabripennis Anoplophora chinensis

Asian longhorned citrus longhorned beetle INVASIVE. Body length: 17–39 mm EXOTIC. Body length: 25–40 mm long. Thorax: solid black, stout, sharp, long. Thorax: black, with a large black spine on each side. Scutellum spine on each side and a central black. Elytra: shiny black with white 10 mm bump. Scutellum black. Elytra: spots randomly placed and of differing shiny black with white spots, often sizes (spots may be yellow-brownish). arranged in a line side-to-side with Generally found along the four speckles around apical half, or quarters of elytra if a longitudinal line random; elytral bases roughened were divided into fourths. Antennae: ♀ ♂ ♂ with many bumps or tubercles females 1.3x body length and males giving a wrinkled appearance. 2.5x body length; banded black and Antennae: females 1.3x body white in both sexes. length and males 2x body length.

DEFINING DIFFERENCE scutellum is black in A. DEFINING DIFFERENCE glabripennis and A. chinensis but is noticably white in elytral bases smooth in A. glabripennis; . elytral bases roughened with many bumps or tubercles giving a wrinkled appearance in A. chinensis. whitespotted sawyer NATIVE. Body length: 13–27 mm long (much smaller than A. glabripennis). Thorax bronze black; Identifying ALB and look-alike beetles scutellum is white or yellowish. Elytra bronze black beneath pubescence, which in male is mostly dark and rubs off easily, while females typically have many Beetles have ANY that does not have more white patches (may appear protective forewings this feature can be eliminated known as elytra. as a potential ALB. yellowish). Antennae: females no ♀ ♂ longer than body length, slightly Beetle elytra typically Longhorned beetles (family meet in a straight line Cerambycidae) are highly banded; males longer than body down the back and variable but typically have an and solid black. this arrangement elongate body with very long, Monochamus scutellatus is diagnostic segmented antennae. for identifying sharpening observation skills longhorned beetles. This photo guide is part of a diagnostic set. Visit www.FirstDetector.org for more SHARPENING OBSERVATION SKILLS materials. Asian longhorned beetle & NATIVE look-alikes

Asian longhorned banded cottonwood eyed beetle (ALB) alder borer borer Anoplophora glabripennis Rosalia funebris Plectrodera scalator oculatus

northeastern spotted southern pine balsam fir broadnecked sawyer sawyer sawyer sawyer root borer * * Prionus laticollis

* images © N. Wright, FDACS, Bugwood.org

20 mm are scaled to one another but sizes vary considerably among individuals

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