Larvae of Wood-Boring Beetles
Feeding on Elms (Ulmus spp.)

Wood-Boring Beetle Species
Scientific Name &
Common Name (if any)
Comments (if any)
Achryson surinamus
Anelaphus pumilum
Dryobius sexnotatus
(Six-Banded Longhorn Beetle)
Eupogonius subarmata
Goes pulcher
(Living Hickory Borer)
bores through heartwood of living trees
Leptura emarginata
Physocnemum brevilineum
(Elm Bark Borer)
bores through bark of living trees
Saperda tridentata
(Elm Borer)
bores through wood of dead & dying trees
Strangalepta pubera
Anthaxia viridifrons*
Scolytus multistriatus**
(Small European Elm Bark Beetle)
primary transmitter of Dutch Elm disease

*Buprestidae (Metallic Wood-Boring Beetles)
**Scolytidae (Bark Beetles)

Note: All species are in the Cerambycidae (Long-Horned Beetles),
except as noted above.

Sources: Yanega (1996), MacRae (1991), Cranshaw (2004)

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