Species
Phymatodes nitidus (Sequoia cone borer)
Phymatodes nitidus. Photo: (c) Eddie Dunbar, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)
Phymatodes nitidus is a species of longhorn beetle. It lays its eggs on the surface of giant sequoia and coast redwood cones, into which the larvae then burrow.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
- Subphylum: Hexapoda (Hexapods)
- Class: Insecta (Insects)
- Subclass: Pterygota (Winged and once-winged insects)
- Order: Coleoptera (Beetles)
- Suborder: Polyphaga (Water, rove, scarab, long-horned, leaf, and snout beetles)
- Infraorder: Cucujiformia (Cucujiform beetles)
- Superfamily: Cerambycoidea (Long-horned beetles and allies)
- Family: Cerambycidae (Longhorn beetles)
- Subfamily: Cerambycinae (Typical longhorn beetles)
- Tribe: Callidiini
- Genus: Phymatodes
- Subgenus: Poecilium
- Species: Phymatodes nitidus (Sequoia cone borer)
- Subgenus: Poecilium
- Genus: Phymatodes
- Tribe: Callidiini
- Subfamily: Cerambycinae (Typical longhorn beetles)
- Family: Cerambycidae (Longhorn beetles)
- Superfamily: Cerambycoidea (Long-horned beetles and allies)
- Infraorder: Cucujiformia (Cucujiform beetles)
- Suborder: Polyphaga (Water, rove, scarab, long-horned, leaf, and snout beetles)
- Order: Coleoptera (Beetles)
- Subclass: Pterygota (Winged and once-winged insects)
- Class: Insecta (Insects)
- Subphylum: Hexapoda (Hexapods)
- Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
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