Girdling by onciderine twig girdlers on branches and trunks of host plants. (a) female of Oncideres guttulata Thomson, 1868 on a girdled branch in Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz, Santa Fe, Argentina (photograph courtesy of Eduardo Luis Beltrocco) (b) female of Oncideres pustulata LeConte, 1854 on a girdled branch in Linares, Nuevo León, Mexico (photograph courtesy of Margarita Barba) (c) couple of Oncideres dejeanii Thomson, 1868 mating on a girdled branch in Ibiúna, São Paulo, Brazil (photograph courtesy of André) (d) girdled branch of cultured persimmon in Silver Point, Tennessee, United States of America (photograph courtesy of David A. Steen) (e) girdled trunk in Santa Cruz, Bolivia ©E.H. Nearns (f) Oncideres sp. ©E.H. Nearns.
#LiteratureNotice Souza & Rowan et al. Cutting the sap: First molecular phylogeny of twig-girdler #LonghornBeetles ( #Coleoptera: #Cerambycidae: #Lamiinae) suggests shifts in host plant attack behaviours contributed to morphological evolution doi.org/10.1111/syen... #Beetle #Beetles #Morphometrics