The longhorn beetles, also known as long-horned or longicorns, are a large family of beetles, with over 35,000 species described.
Batus barbicornis MHNT femelle
The larva of the fig-tree borer, Phryneta spinator, has the shape typical of larvae of Cerambycidae, straight and legless, termed apodous eruciform, but on some of its segments, it has swellings that aid in locomotion, especially in the tunnels it chews through wood.
Eburia quadrigeminata, the ivory marked borer
Flower-visiting species, Zorion guttigerum.
The Asian long-horned beetle, also known as the starry sky, sky beetle, or ALB, is native to the Korean Peninsula, northern and southern China, and disputably in northern Japan. This species has now b
Longhorn beetle
…hosts of Ontsira mellipes (a parasitoid wasp in the family Braconidae). O. mellipes may be useful in controlling a forestry pest in this same family, Anoplophora glabripennis, that is invasive in North America. As with many large families, different authorities have tended to recognize many different subfamilies, or sometimes…
Eggs within pits with the bark removed.
Multiple instars removed from gallery.
Pupa within its pupal chamber with frass.