Lepturges regularis

Associated with moist, east-facing slopes in rich deciduous forest understories where red buckeye occurs.

North America; documented from the southeastern Ozark Highlands of Missouri.

Adults have been reared from wood collected in spring (following one season of exposure); field observations in early April associated with spring-blooming host plants.

Larval development occurs in dead wood of red buckeye (Aesculus pavia); adult feeding habits are unknown.

• Aesculus pavia - larval hostReared from dead branches; represents a new larval host record documented by MacRae and Rice (2007)

Wood-boring larval stage; requires at least one season of wood exposure for colonization and development.

Wood-boring beetle that colonizes dead branches of host trees.

Decomposer in forest ecosystems through wood-boring larval activity in dead branches.

Of interest to coleopterists due to its rarity; contributes to scientific knowledge of cerambycid host associations.

• Lepturges angulatusCo-occurs in same habitat and host material; distinguished by morphological differences in the genus Lepturges
• Astyleiopus variegatusSympatric longhorn beetle reared from same host plant; belongs to different genus with distinct morphology
• Hyperplatys maculataSympatric longhorn beetle reared from same host plant; belongs to different genus with distinct morphology
• Leptostylus transversusSympatric longhorn beetle reared from same host plant; belongs to different genus with distinct morphology

• Cerambycidae
• Lamiinae
• wood-boring
• rare
• host-specific

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