Bamboo Longhorned Beetle
by Michelle Meenawong
Title
Bamboo Longhorned Beetle
Artist
Michelle Meenawong
Medium
Photograph - Metal Print
Description
The bamboo longhorned beetle primarily infests bamboo, and most reports are from dried bamboo. However, the insect has also been reported in sugarcane, citrus, pear, apple, teak, cotton, corn, and, in the Chinese literature, maple. For many of these hosts, though, it's uncertain whether reports of associations are for larval damage or simply observations of flower-feeding by adults (which is common in this genus).
Generic diagnostic characters: head very feebly elevated between antennal insertion; antennal insertion close approximate, distinctively narrower in width than lower eye lobe; antennae shorter than body, not extended beyond half of elytra in both sexes; prothorax mostly cydariform, few oblong-oval; elytra truncate, dentate at angle; legs with femora gradually thicken towards apex; mid femora carinate along its length, sometimes the hind femora as well.
Specific characters: Length 10.0 - 15.0 mm; breadth 2.2 - 4.0 mm; Body densely clothed with yellowish pubescence; elytra with dark brownish or black markings; more yellowish pubescence marking on elytra.
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