''Phrissomides'' (singular Phrissoma) is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
longhorn beetle
The longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae), also known as long-horned or longicorns (whose larvae are often referred to as roundheaded borers), are a large family of beetles, with over 35,000 species described.
Most species are characterized by Antenn ...
s of the subfamily
Lamiinae
Lamiinae, commonly called flat-faced longhorns, are a subfamily of the longhorn beetle family (Cerambycidae). The subfamily includes over 750 genera, rivaled in diversity within the family only by the subfamily Cerambycinae
Cerambycinae is a s ...
.
Containing the following species:
* ''
Phrissoma crispum''
(Fabricius, 1776)
* ''
Phrissoma reichei''
(Thomson, 1865)
* ''
Phrissoma terricolum''
(Thomson, 1864)
Name
The term Phrissoma is formed from two Greek words,
φρίσσω (phriso) which means "to be rough or uneven on the surface" and
σῶμα (soma) which means "body", and is applied to these insects because not only the thorax but the whole of the upper surface is covered with spikes.
References
Phrissomini
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