Rhagium mordax

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Black-spotted longhorn beetle
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Cerambycidae
Genus: Rhagium
Species:
R. mordax
Binomial name
Rhagium mordax
(DeGeer, 1775)
Synonyms
  • Cerambyx mordax(DeGeer) Gmelin, 1790
  • Leptura mordaxDeGeer, 1775
  • Rhagium linneiLaicharting, 1784
  • Rhagium vulgareSamouelle, 1819

Rhagium mordax, the black-spotted longhorn beetle, [1] is a species of long-horned beetle. [2] This beetle is found throughout Europe and to Kazakhstan and Russia. [2] Larvae develop in silver fir, hazel, European weeping birch, European beech, and the European chestnut. [2] Ischnoceros rusticus is an ichneumonid parasitoid wasp that feds on Rhagium mordax larvae. [2]

Subtaxa

There are five formally described varieties: [2]

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References

  1. "Longhorn Beetles | Great Fen". www.greatfen.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-07-21.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 BioLib Taxon profile — species Rhagium mordax (DeGeer, 1775)