Asian long-horned beetle

Template:Domain:	Eukaryota
Template:Regnum:	Animalia
Template:Subregnum:	Metazoa
Template:Phylum:	Arthropoda
Template:Subphylum:	Hexapoda
Template:Classis:	Insecta
Template:Subclassis:	Pterygota
Template:Infraclassis:	Neoptera
Template:Superordo:	Endopterygota
Template:Ordo:	Coleoptera
Template:Subordo:	Polyphaga
Template:Infraordo:	Cucujiformia
Template:Superfamilia:	Chrysomeloidea
Template:Familia:	Cerambycidae
Template:Subfamilia:	Lamiinae
Tribe:	Lamiini
Template:Genus:	Anoplophora
[[{{{1}}}{{{2}}} {{{3}}}\|{{{1}}}. {{{3}}}]]:	glabripennis

Binomial name

Anoplophora glabripennis
Motschulsky 1853

The Asian long-horned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis) is native to China and Korea where it causes widespread mortality of poplar, willow, elm, and maple throughout vast areas of eastern Asia.

Asian longhorned beetles are big, showy insects: shiny and coal black with white spots. Adults are about 1 inch (2.5 cm) long. On their head is a pair of very long antennae that are alternately ringed in black and white. The antennae are longer than the insect's body.

An invasive species in the United States, the larva of this beetle has a voracious appetite for wood. It is especially damaging to maple trees: Norway, sugar, silver, and red maple are among its preferred foods. The species also feeds on horsechestnut, poplar, willow, elm, mulberry, and black locust. Females of this species chew into the bark and lay eggs. When the eggs hatch, the immature beetles, which look like big white worms, chew their way farther into the tree. When they mature, the full-grown beetles chew their way out of the tree. The beetle life cycle leaves trees riddled with holes, oozing sap. The USDA believes this beetle can probably survive and reproduce in most sections of the country where suitable host trees exist.

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