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Cerambycidae: Longhorn beetles

Wasp beetle Clytus arietis (Linnaeus, 1758)

	Location: Cambridge, Gwydir Street; on pear tree. Date: 12 Jun 2001 Length: Head + body 13mm Larvae live in dead and decaying timber One of the long-horn family but lacks the typical very exaggerated antennae, perhaps enhancing the wasp-like mimicry. NBN Atlas
	Location: On a traffic sign near Heydon, Cambs. TL4242. Date: 5 Jun 2008 Enlarged photo

Agapanthia villosoviridescens (De Geer, 1775)

Location: Cambridge, Gwydir Street. Date: 13 Jun 2004 Larvae bore in stems of hogweed, thistles and other herbaceous plants NBN Atlas

Grammoptera ruficornis (Fabricius, 1781)

Location: Cambridge, Gwydir Street. Date: 17 May 2003 A small longhorn with red/black banded antennae. Larvae feed on wood of dead twigs. Adults feed on nectar and pollen of flowers. NBN Atlas

Leptura quadrifasciata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Location: On the banks of the River Lark, Cambridgeshire (TL6180). Date: 13 Aug 2007 NBN Atlas Enlarged photo

Fairy-ring longhorn beetle Pseudovadonia livida (Fabricius, 1776)

Syns. Leptura livida, Vadonia livida Location: Adams Road Sanctuary (TL437587). Date: 26 June 2012 (Captured & released) Adults often found on Asteraceae flowers. Larvae are thought to feed on the mycelium of fairy-ring fungi, although some authors suggest they live in timber. NBN Atlas

Rutpela maculata (Poda von Neuhaus, 1761)

Syns. Strangalia maculata, Leptura maculata Wetlands Nature Reserve, Ickleton TL496442: 22 Jun 2023 Usually found along hedgerows and woodland margins where the adults are most often seen on Hawthorn or umbel flowers. The larvae live in rotten wood and emerge into adults in May. NBN Atlas

Stenocorus meridianus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Location: Lime Kiln Close, Cherry Hinton (TL485560) Date: 30 June 2015 Very conspicuous when flying with its elytra spread out Concave sides to elytra (in male), brownish femora and antenna bases Larvae are wood-borers on a wide range of deciduous trees and pines NBN Atlas

Stenurella melanura (Linnaeus, 1758)

Bramblefields LNR, Cambridge TL472606: 7 Jun 2022 Frequents well wooded areas, parks and meadows where adults will visit a range of flowering plants. Ox-eye daisies are a favourite. Larvae bore longitudinal or undulating galleries in the sapwood of slender branches, trunks or decaying stumps. NBN Atlas

Red Longhorn beetle Stictoleptura rubra (Linnaeus, 1758)

Syns. Leptura rubra, Corymbia rubra Location: Cambridge, Gwydir Street. Date: 15 July 2018 The female is red throughout the thorax and abdomen. Juveniles often found on various pines, firs and larches. On dead wood and stumps. Adults visit flowers for nectar and pollen. Differs from P. livida (above) by its ochre tibiae and tarsi. NBN Atlas Enlarged photo

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