Rhagium mordax
Appearance
Black-spotted longhorn beetle | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Cerambycidae |
Genus: | Rhagium |
Species: | R. mordax
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Binomial name | |
Rhagium mordax (DeGeer, 1775)
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Synonyms | |
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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
[edit]There are five formally described varieties:[2]
- Rhagium mordax var. altajense Plavilstshikov, 1915
- Rhagium mordax var. klenkai Heyrovský, 1914
- Rhagium mordax var. mediofasciatum Plavilstshikov, 1936
- Rhagium mordax var. morvandicum Pic, 1927
- Rhagium mordax var. subdilatatum Pic, 1917