Weaver beetle

The weaver beetle[1] (Lamia textor) is a species of beetle from subfamily Lamiinae in long-horned beetle family; it is a North Asia species.[2] Larvae develop in willow trees, rare in birch and poplar.[3]

Lamia textor
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Cerambycidae
Subfamily:	Lamiinae
Genus:	Lamia
Species:	L. textor
Binomial name
Lamia textor (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
Cerambyx cephaloses Voet, 1778[1] Cerambyx nigrorugosus DeGeer, 1775[1] Cerambyx noctis Gronov, 1764[1] Cerambyx textor Linnaeus, 1758[1] Cerambyx unicolor Brown, 1776[1] Lamia tricarinata Cornelius, 1884[1] Pachystola textor (Linnaeus) Küster, 1845[1]

Distributed everywhere in Western Europe, except extreme north, also distributed in Central and Eastern Europe, Siberia (meets on territories where appropriate these species food plants, starting from southern part of tundra), Caucasus, South Caucasus (rare), Sakhalin, in northern and western parts of Kazakhstan, Japan, Korea and in northeast of China.[3][4]

Imago is 15–32 mm long. Egg is 4.5–5 mm in length, and 1.2–1.4 mm in diameter.[5]

Front view of Weaver beetle's head with high magnification.

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