Rhagium inquisitor
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Rhagium inquisitor, the ribbed pine borer, is a species of longhorn beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae.[1] It is distributed widely in the Holarctic, and its larvae burrow into the wood of larch, pine, spruce, birch and oak trees.[2]
References
- ^ Bezark, Larry G. A Photographic Catalog of the Cerambycidae of the World. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
- ^ Svatopluk Bílý; O. Mehl (1989). Longhorn Beetles - Coleoptera, Cerambycidae - of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Brill. ISBN 90-04-08697-8.