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Tetrapriocera longicornis (Olivier)
Bostrichus longicornis Olivier, 1795.
Tetrapriocera schwarzi Horn, 1878.
PREVIOUSLY RECORDED DISTRIBUTION.—Cuba; Isla de Pinos; Hispaniola; Puerto Rico; St. Thomas; Guadeloupe; Grenada; South America; Central America; Mexico; United States (Blackwelder, 1945, p. 400).
DOMINICAN DISTRIBUTION.—Clarke Hall, 4 July 1964, T. J. Spilman; Clarke Hall, 6–8 October 1964, P. J. Spangler.
BIOLOGY.—Fisher (1950, p. 103) summarized the biology of this species: adults boring into living trunks and branches of Metopium toxiferum (L.) Krug and Urban (=Rhus metopium L.); larvae and adults in half-burned roots of Smilax; adults in pruned and girdled branches of avocado and guayaba; adults in derris roots. Some of the Dominican specimens were captured at light. The immature stages have not been described.
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- Spilman, T. J. 1971. "Bredin--Archbold--Smithsonian biological survey of Dominica: Bostrichidae, Inopeplidae, Lagriidae, Lyctidae, Lymexylonidae, Melandryidae, Monommidae, Rhipiceridae, and Rhipiphoridae (Coleoptera)." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-10. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.70
Tetrapriocera longicornis: Brief Summary
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Tetrapriocera longicornis is a species of horned powder-post beetle in the family Bostrichidae. It is found in the Caribbean, Europe and Northern Asia (excluding China), Central America, North America, and South America.
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