Tribe Liginini
*Note: Only one genus within the Tribe Ligiini is found in Virginia orchards.
Genus Dicaelus
Large, robust, convex; antennae with the basal three segments entirely glabrous; pronotum wider at base than at apex, base prolonged over base of elytra; elytra not sinuate at apex, deeply striate, eighth and ninth striae distant, seventh interval more or less carinate at base, dorsal puncturs lacking; metacoxae contiguous, not separated by the apex of the antecoxal piece.
Key to selected species
1. Elytra not uniformly black, but purplish............................................a. purpuratus
Elytra black............................................................................................................2
2. Two seta-bearing punctures on pronotal margin near middle...................................3
One seta-bearing puncture on pronotal margin near middle..........................b. dilatatus
3. Black, shining thorax...........................................................................c. elongatus
Black, yet rather dull...................................................................................d. furvus