Leptalia LeConte, 1873

Leptalia LeConte, 1873 is a monotypic genus consisting of the type species, Anoplodera macilenta Mannerheim, 1853 (by original designation).  It was one of the three genera, including Encyclops and Pyrotrichus (now Enoploderes) to comprise LeConte's tribe Encyclopini (see LeConte, 1873b). 

L. macilenta ranges in the Pacific Northwest from Alaska southward along the Cascade and Coastal ranges to Central California. A single dot on Linsley and Chemsak's (1972) distribution map (Fig. 32) apparently represents an isolated population in Montana. 

Biology

See Leptalia macilenta species page for details. New host plants have been introduced by Penrose and Westcott (1974) and Swift (2008). 

Works Cited

1. Chemsak, J. A., and J. A. Powell. 1971. Behavior of Leptalia macilenta (Mannerheim), with a description of the pupa. Pan-Pacific Ent. 47(2): 101-104.
2. LeConte, J. L. 1873a. New species of North American Coleoptera. Prepared for the Smithsonian Institution. Part II. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections.  11(264):169-240
3. LeConte, J. L. 1973b. Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Prepared for the Smithsonian Institution. Part II. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections.  11(265):279-348.
4. Linsley, E. G., and J. A. Chemsak. 1972. Cerambycidae of North America. Part VI. No. 1. Taxonomy and Classification of the Subfamily Lepturinae. University of California Publications in Entomology 69,  xiii+138 pp, 2 pl.
5. Mannerheim, C. G. von. 1853. Dritter Nachtrag zur Käfer-Fauna der Nord-Amerikanischen Länder des Russischen Reiches. Bull. Soc. Imp. Natur. Moscou, 26(2):96-273.
6. Penrose, R. L. and Richard L. Westcott.  1974. Notes on the Distribution, Hosts and Bionomics of Some Pacific Northwest Cerambycidae (Coleoptera). The Coleopterists Bulletin, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Dec.), pp. 233-236.
7. Swift, Ian. 2008. Ecological and biogeographical observations on Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) from California, USA. Insecta Mundi, 0026: 1-7.