CERAMBYCIDAE Latreille, 1802
(longhorn beetles)

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Species 3 ident. refs
Species 1 ident. refs
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Genus 1 subtaxa 3 images
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Subfamily 7 subtaxa 52 images 6 ident. refs
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Subfamily 6 subtaxa 23 images 4 ident. refs
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Genus 1 subtaxa 22 images 1 ident. refs
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Subfamily 11 subtaxa 117 images 8 ident. refs
Species 1 ident. refs
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Subfamily 1 subtaxa 6 images
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Subfamily 1 subtaxa 6 images
Genus 1 subtaxa 1 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyCERAMBYCIDAE (longhorn beetles)
SuperfamilyCHRYSOMELOIDEA (leaf, longhorn and seed beetles)
Series Cucujiformia (a group of beetles)
SuborderPOLYPHAGA (mainly terrestrial beetles)
OrderCOLEOPTERA (beetles)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Bíly, S. & Mehl, O. 2007 Longhorn Beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) of Fennoscandia and Denmark Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica, 22, 204pp, E. J. Brill / Scandinavian Science Press Ltd.
() Duff, A. (Illust: Lewington, R.) 2007 Identification - Longhorn Beetles: Part 2 British Wildlife Vol 19, No 1: 35-43.
() Duff, A. (Illust: Lewington, R.) 2006 Identification - Longhorn Beetles: Part 1 British Wildlife Vol 18, No 6: 406-414.
() Duff, A.G. 2016 Beetles of Britain and Ireland: Cerambycidae to Curculionidae Beetles of Britain and Ireland, Volume 4, 623pp
Duffy, E.A.J. 1952 Coleoptera: Cerambycidae Handbooks for the identification of British insects, Vol 5, Part 12, 18pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Eversham, B. 2004 The Longhorn Beetles (Cerambycidae) of Beds, Cambs & Northants http://www.wildlifebcnp.org/ecology-resources.htm
Freude, H., Harde, K.W. & Lohse, G.A. (Eds.) 1966 Die Käfer Mitteleuropas. Band 9 (Cerambycidae, Chrysomelidae) Die Käfer Mitteleuropas, Vol 9, Goecke & Evers, Krefeld
Hoskovec, M. & Rejzek, M. 1997 Cerambycidae - Longhorn beetles of the West Palaearctic region www.uochb.cas.cz/~natur/cerambyx/index.htm
Picard, F. 1929 *** Coléoptères: Cerambycidae ***(Superseded) Faune de France, Faune No 20, 167pp, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Science Naturel

Larvae

Duffy, E.A.J. 1953 A monograph of the immature stages of British and imported timber beetles (Cerambycidae. Part of a series covering larvae of Cermabycidae from around the World, 350+VIIIpp, Natural History Museum Publications
van Emden, F.I. 1939 Larvae of British Beetles I: Key to genera and most of the species of British Cerambycid larvae Ent. Mon. Mag. 75,76: 75:257-273, 76:7-13.

CERAMBYCIDAE (longhorn beetles) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for CERAMBYCIDAE (longhorn beetles)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 272 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for CERAMBYCIDAE (longhorn beetles)
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