Phoracantha
{{short description|Genus of beetles}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|taxon = Phoracantha
| image = Phoracantha obscura.jpg
| image_caption = Phoracantha obscura
|authority = Newman, 1840
}}
Phoracantha is a genus of eucalyptus borers in the family Cerambycidae. There are at least two described species in Phoracantha.{{cite web|title=Phoracantha Genus Information|url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/61080|website=BugGuide.net|accessdate=2018-02-10}}{{cite web|title=Phoracantha Report|url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=187569|website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System|accessdate=2018-02-10}}{{cite web|title=Phoracantha Overview|url=http://eol.org/pages/9860/overview|website=Encyclopedia of Life|accessdate=2018-02-10}}
Species
- Phoracantha obscura (Donovan, 1805)
- Phoracantha punctata (Donovan, 1805)
- Phoracantha recurva Newman, 1840
- Phoracantha semipunctata (Fabricius, 1775) (eucalyptus longhorn borer)
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Further reading
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- {{cite book
|editor-last1 = Arnett |editor-first1 = R. H. Jr.
|editor-last2 = Thomas |editor-first2 = M. C.
|editor-last3 = Skelley |editor-first3 = P. E.
|editor-last4 = Frank |editor-first4 = J. H.
| date = 21 June 2002
| title = American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
|publisher = CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida
}}
- {{cite book
| last1 = Arnett | first1 = Ross H.
| date = 30 July 2000
| title = American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
| publisher = CRC Press
| isbn = 978-0-8493-0212-1
}}
- {{cite book
|last1 = Monné |first1 = Miguel A.
|last2 = Giesbert |first2 = Edmund F.
|date = 1995
|title = Checklist of the Cerambycidae and Disteniidae (Coleoptera) of the Western Hemisphere
|publisher = Wolfsgarden Books
|volume = 2nd ed.
|isbn = 1-885850-01-8
}}
- {{cite book
|last1 = White |first1 = Richard E.
|date = 1983
|title = Peterson Field Guides: Beetles
|publisher = Houghton Mifflin Company
}}
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