Batocera rubus
Appearance
| Batocera rubus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Cerambycidae |
| Genus: | Batocera |
| Species: | B. rubus |
| Binomial name | |
| Batocera rubus | |
| Synonyms | |
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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.
Subspecies
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- Batocera rubus mniszechi Thomson, 1859
- Batocera rubus palawanica Kaup, 1866
- Batocera rubus rubus (Linnaeus, 1758)
References
[edit]- ↑ "Batocera rubus". BioLib. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
Categories:
- Batocerini
- Beetles described in 1758
- Animal taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
- Beetles of Asia
- Beetles of Japan
- Beetles of China
- Beetles of India
- Beetles of Laos
- Beetles of Myanmar
- Beetles of Malaysia
- Beetles of the Philippines
- Beetles of South Korea
- Beetles of Taiwan
- Beetles of Thailand
- Beetles of Vietnam
- Beetles of Java
- Beetles of Sumatra
- Batocerini stubs