Sphaenothecus trilineatus

This species was not recognized as part of the United States longhorn beetle fauna until reported from Brownsville by Chemsak and Noguera. They mention the single Texas record in a paragraph discussion but not in the Material Examined section of their paper. The specimen that is the basis for the record is present in the Essig Museum of Entomology (University of California–Berkeley) (C. B. Barr, pers. comm. to Riley & King, 2009). A second specimen labeled as being from Texas was seen during the preparation of this report (USNM collection). It is labeled Port la Vaca, at Brownsville, II-7-1968, J. B. Kee. Since there is no such location as Port la Vaca at Brownsville, but there is a Port Lavaca, Texas (Calhoun County), one can speculate that this specimen was perhaps intercepted in commerce and not collected in the field. This view is supported by the fact that the USNM Collection includes a great amount of insect material that was submitted by inspectors to the United States Department of Agriculture taxonomic service unit for identification. It seems highly unlikely that this specimen originated in Port Lavaca, Texas and was later intercepted at Brownsville, Texas. Texas initially considered this a SGCN, but it has been removed from the current list.