Diet

• Larvae: Feed within dead, dying, or weakened wood, including branches, stems, and small trunks of woody plants. Some species develop in dead herbaceous stems.

• Adults: Feed on pollen, nectar, sap, bark, foliage, or tender plant tissues, depending on the species. Some adults feed very little.

Range

• The tribe Desmiphorini is distributed primarily throughout the New World, with species occurring from Canada and the United States through Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America.

• Mexico supports a particularly diverse fauna, including species in Guerrero and along the Pacific coast.

• Greatest diversity occurs in tropical and subtropical forests.

Habitat

• Found in tropical dry forests, tropical rainforests, woodland edges, secondary forests, thorn scrub, forest clearings, and disturbed wooded habitats.

• Larvae develop inside dead branches, twigs, fallen logs, and other woody debris.

• Adults are often found on tree trunks, foliage, flowers, and fallen wood.

Size

• Adult length: approximately 4–15 mm (0.16–0.6 in), depending on species.

• Generally small, slender beetles with comparatively short antennae for a longhorn beetle, often with mottled, bark-like colouration.