Species
Prionus californicus (California root borer beetle)
Prionus californicus. Photo: (c) John L. Richards, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Prionus californicus, commonly known as the California root borer, is a species of insect in the longhorn beetle family (Cerambycidae). It is native to the American west where it is often a pest of orchard and vine crops.
- 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: Prioninae (Prionine beetles)
- Tribe: Prionini
- Genus: Prionus
- Subgenus: Prionus
- Species: Prionus californicus (California root borer beetle)
- Subgenus: Prionus
- Genus: Prionus
- Tribe: Prionini
- Subfamily: Prioninae (Prionine 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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