REVIEW OF LITERATURE

The history of classification of Longhorn beetle begins with Latreille

(1802) who proposed the name chrysomelines for this group. The classification of
cerambycidae as a whole dated back to the middle and the late nineteenth
century by Thomson (1850). Leconte (1850, 1851, 1852) White (1853 and 1855),
Pascoe(???1864-69), Lacordaire(1869, 1872).

The pioneer workers on Cerambycids are White(1855)and

Thomson(1860).The most comprehensive and fundamental taxonomic work on
the Cerambycidae was first published by Lacordaire(1872). Leconte(1873)was the
first to put forward the philosophical arrangement of longicorn beetles but his
knowledge was restricted to the North American taxa.

Leconte (add year) was first worker who put forward the philosophical
arrangement of longicorn beetles but his knowledge was restricted to Northern
American taxa (Pascoe 1869 abc, Fragoso et el 1987) later treated all the
longicorn genera of then accepted families, namely,prionidae,cerambycidae and
Lamidae in the “ears and dure classification de la familidae cerambycidae.

At the beginning of 20th century, taxonomic studies of the Cerambycidae of

the oriental region were carried out by three scientists (who are they please add
refereces+++). Gahan(1906a,b) gave a comprehensive coverage of most genera
represented in the Indian region and part of the Malayasian sub region. On the
other hand, Aurivillius (1910,1912) and Fisher (1935,1936) focused more
specifically on the Cerambycidae of Java, Sarawak and Sabah.

Cerambycid fauna from the Marquesas islands. The diversity of Oriental

and Australia (Papuan subregion) Cerambycids were thoroughly documented by
Gressitt and Rondon (1970) and Hudepohl and Heffern (2002).Hayashi (1979a)
and Hudepohl (1987)are the only two entomologists actively doing taxonomic
work on cerambycids of Peninsular Malaysia and Sabah and Philippines
respectively. Villiers and Chujo (1966),Hayashi(1979b,1981)and Hayashi and
Makihara (1981) have contributed towards the knowledge of the Nepalese
Cerambycidae based on the material brought through Japanese expeditions.
Taiwan and Ryukyus longicorn beetles were reported by Hayashi(1974) and
Makiara (1978). North American Cerambycids were also worked out by Fragoso
and Monne(1982) and revised by Chemsak (1996). Longhorn beetles of Korean
Peninsula were described by Lee(1987) and Danilevsky (1992).Ching (1994)
described a new Lamiinae from mainland China. Ozdikmen and
Demir(2006),Ozdikmen(2007),Ozdikmen and Turgut(2009a,b),Ozdikmen et
al.(2009,2012),Tezkan and Pyeman (2009),Ozdikmen
(2011a,b;2019ab;2014),Sama et al.(2012),Cihan et al.(2013),Senyiiz and
Ozdikmen(2013),Hamadani-Al and Ozdikmen(2014);Ozbeket al.(2015),Tokin and
Ozdikmen (2015),Ozdikmen and Ozdikmen(2016)have dealtlongicorn beetles of
Turkey. Ozdikmen and Okutaner(2006)have reported longhorn beetles from
Kahramanmaras Province. Friedman et al.(2008)reported five invasive species of
longhornbeetles, all known as pests,from Israel. Albayati et al. (2016) have
recorded longhorn beetles from Belgrad forest in Istanbul Province with new
records to Europe, European Turkey, Marmara region of Turkey and Intanbul
Province.

A detailed account on cerambycidae was published in Handbook of Zoology (Add

references).

The most comprehensive work on the Indian Cerambycidae were the

works of Gahan (1906) under the fauna of British India. He included +++++++
species under+++ subfamilies.

Biology of cerambycidae is well described in the book.’’On the biology of the

cerambycidae (coleoptera) Indian volume 5 ,No 1 January(1939)

A first record for Plagionutus arcuatus(Linnaeus,1758) in the Balearic Islands is

documented through firewood pathway.

In order to support identification and investigation of longhorn beetles, number

of checklists and catalogues have been prepared
Hayashi,1980;Bense,1995;Komiya and Lorenc,2000;Lorenc ,2000;Ribardo and
Cope,2000;Danilevsky,2004,2012;Miguel et al.
,2005;Monne,2005a,b;Heffern,2005,2011;Wappes et al.,2006;Makihara et
al.,2008;Bezark,2009;Bousquet et al.,2009;Sama et al.,2010;Ponpinij et
al.,2011;Sakalian and Georgiev,2011;Ozdikmen and Ali,2012;Tavakilian and
Chevillotte,2016).In course of time several monographs have also been published
on the cerambycid beetles(Picard,1929,Bily and Mehl,1989;Ohbayashi et
al.,1992;Linsley and Chemsak, 1985, 1997; Cherapanov, 1983, 1990a, b; 1991
a,b,c;Ohbayashi and Niisato,2007).Several electronic versions on the world fauna
of longhorn beetles are available online
(Abang,2013;Roguet,2013;Vitali,2013;Bisby, 2016;Anonymous,2016b.

Fabricus(???1972) carried out the study of Cerambycidae of Tamil Nadu for the
first time by describing Apomecyna histrio and Niphona fuscatrix from
Tharangmbadi, Nagapatinum district. In 1978 he studied Prionomma at ratum
(Gmelin ) from the same locality Gahan (1890-1906) reported 89 species,
including 36 new species. Breunining (1936-1979) 103 genera and 5 subfamiles
are listed.

Roving surveys were conducted during(2015-2016 Add exact references) in

three districts of Kerala, India Viz,Thiruvananthapuram,Kollam and
Pathanamthitta to document Cerambycid bores belonging to three sub
families,Viz,laminae and Cerambycinae and Prioninae were found to occur in the
surveyed locations.

The voluminous works on the Cerambycid fauna in North East India were mostly
done by Gahan(1894,1906) and Breuing (1936, 1938a,1938b, 1954, 1958, 1965).
Afterwards, Kapur (1954) Basak and Biswas (1985), Mukhopadhyay and Biswas
(2000a, 2000b) Ray Chaudhuri and Saha (2000), Mukhopadhyay and Halder
(2003,2004), Mukhopadhyay (2011), Saha et al., (2013), Mitra and Majumder
(2014), Mitra et al., (2016a, 2016b, 2016c) have reported some more species from
Assam in their published works. Inventory of longhornbeetles of Arunachal
Pradesh, Tripura,West Bengal, Meghalaya,Sikkim, Uttarakhand and Tamilnadu
were made available by Zoological Survey of India (add references).
Mukhopadhyay and Biswas (2000) consolidated the available on cerambycid
fauna of Meghalaya.
Hiremath (+++) studied Longhorn beetles of Karnataka and included xx species
under xx genera and xx subfamilies. More recently Hiremath (2019) added a new
species of Miccolamia +++++ from South India and provided a key to the Indian
species of the genera.

Economic entomology part

Swapna and Divya (2010) reported the extend of larval infestation of the pest
Batocera rufomaculata be Geer in selected Panchayaths in Chittur Taluk of
Palakkad district in Kerala.