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| Monochamus scutellatus | |
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| Monochamus scutellatus scutellatus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Cerambycidae |
| Subfamily: | Lamiinae |
| Tribe: | Lamiini |
| Genus: | Monochamus |
| Species: | M. scutellatus
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| Monochamus scutellatus (Say, 1824)
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Monochamus scutellatus, commonly known as the white-spotted sawyer or spruce sawyer or spruce bug,[1] is a common wood-boring beetle found throughout North America.[2] It is a species native to North America.[3]
Adults are large-bodied and black, with very long antennae; in males, they can be up to twice the body length, but in females they are only slightly longer than body length. Both sexes have a white spot on the base of the wings, and may have white spots covering the wings. Both males and females also have a spine on the side of the prothorax.[2] Most research done on M. scutellatus focuses on their relationship with burned forests and the logging industry,[2][4][5][6][7] with interest also being shown in their mating behaviours.[8][9][10]
- ^ Spruce sawyer, Insects of Alberta
- ^ a b c Raske, A. G. (1972). Biology and control of Monochamus and Tetropium, the economic wood borers of Alberta (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). Northern Forest Research Centre Internal Report, Canadian Forestry Service, Edmonton, AB
- ^ "Monochamus scutellatus". wiki.bugwood.org. Retrieved 2018-06-25.
- ^ Saint-Germain, M., Drapeau, P., and Hebert, C. (2004). Comparison of Coleoptera assemblages from a recently burned and unburned black spruce forests of northeastern North America. Biological Conservation, 118: 583 - 592
- ^ Saint-Germain, M. and Greene, D. F. (2009). Salvage logging in the boreal and cordilleran forests of Canada. The Forestry Chronicle, 85: 120 - 134
- ^ Boulanger, Y., Sirois, L., and Hebert, C. (2010). Distribution of saproxylic beetles in a recently burnt landscape of the northern boreal forest of Quebec. Forest Ecology and Management, 260: 1114 – 1123
- ^ Cobb, T. P., Hannam, K. D., Kischuk, B. E., Langor, D. W., Quideau, S. A., and Spence, J. R. (2010). Wood-feeding beetles and soil nutrient cycling in burned forests: implications of post-fire salvage logging. Agricultural and Forest Entomology, 12: 9 - 18
- ^ Hughes, A. L., and Hughes, M. K. (1982). Male size, mating success, and breeding habitat partitioning in the whitespotted sawyer Monochamus scutellatus (Say) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). Oecologia, 55: 258 - 263
- ^ Hughes, A. L., and Hughes, M. K. (1985). Female choice of mates in polygynous insect, the whitespotted sawyer Monochamus scutellatus. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 17: 385 – 387
- ^ Hughes, A. L., and Hughes, M. K. (1987). Asymmetric contests among sawyer beetles (Cerambycidae: Monochamus notatus and Monochamus scutellatus). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 65: 823 – 827