| Batocera rubus | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Cerambycidae |
| Genus: | Batocera |
| Species: | B. rubus |
| Binomial name | |
| Batocera rubus | |
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Batocera rubus, the mango longhorn or rubber root borer, is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is known from Japan, China, Java, India, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Sumatra, Thailand, and Vietnam. [1] It feeds on Ficus carica , Ficus elastica , and Mangifera indica . It's a medium-large species of longhorn beetle that measures a length of 20-65 mm from head to tip.
