Longhorn Beetle ident (1 Viewer)

steve_nova

Well-known member

• May 28, 2003

• #1

Can anyone help in identifying this Longhorn Beetle please. I found it today at work on a customers shoulder from where it launched itself on to some wood behind me.

 

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Michael Frankis

conehead

• May 28, 2003

• #2

This one's familiar, I've seen it before. If I remember my forest entomology course right, it is a species of Rhagium, the larvae feed in pine stumps. I forget the name of the species though.

Michael

 

Michael Frankis

conehead

• May 29, 2003

• #3

Remembered it - its Rhagium bifasciatum.

Checked in google, and found a link with a good pic:
http://www.coleopterist.org.uk/taxa/cerambycidae/rhagibif.htm
and:
http://www.uochb.cas.cz/~natur/cerambyx/rhabif.htm

Michael

 

steve_nova

Well-known member

• May 29, 2003

• #4

Thanks Michael for your detective work. They are fascinating creatures. Cheers:t: