Dorcasomus

Dorcasomus
Dorcasomus ebulinus, South Africa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Cerambycidae
Subfamily:	Dorcasominae
Tribe:	Dorcasomini
Genus:	Dorcasomus Audinet-Serville, 1834
Synonyms
Dorcadosomus Agassiz, 1846

Dorcasomus is a genus in the longhorn beetle family Cerambycidae. There are about nine described species in Dorcasomus, found in Africa. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Species

These nine species belong to the genus Dorcasomus:

• Dorcasomus batesi Quentin & Villiers, 1970 (South Africa)
• Dorcasomus capensis Quentin & Villiers, 1970 (South Africa)
• Dorcasomus delegorguei Guérin-Méneville, 1845 (South Africa)
• Dorcasomus ebulinus (Fabricius, 1787) (South Africa)
• Dorcasomus evani Le Gall & Juhel, 2017 (Cameroon)
• Dorcasomus gigas Aurivillius, 1914 (Kenya, DR Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda)
• Dorcasomus mirabilis Quentin & Villiers, 1970 (DR Congo)
• Dorcasomus pinheyi Quentin & Villiers, 1970 (Malawi, Zimbabwe)
• Dorcasomus urundiensis Quentin & Villiers, 1970 (Burundi)

References

1. "GBIF, Dorcasomus" . Retrieved 2024-09-09.
2. "Catalogue of Life, Dorcasomus Audinet-Serville, 1834" . Retrieved 2024-09-09.
3. Bezark, Larry G. "A Photographic Catalog of the Cerambycidae of the Old World" . Retrieved 2024-08-18.
4. Tavakilian, Gerard (2023). "TITAN Cerambycidae database". Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris. doi:10.48580/dg9ld-38m.

External links

• Citizen science observations for Dorcasomus at iNaturalist