Zographus oculator

Zographus oculator, the Orange-eyed Long-horn Beetle, is a species of flat-faced longhorn beetles belonging to the family Cerambycidae.

Zographus oculator
Museum specimen of Zographus oculator
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Family:
Cerambycidae
Subfamily:
Lamiinae
Genus:
Zographus
Species:
Z. oculator
Binomial name
Zographus oculator
(Fabricius, 1775)
Synonyms
  • Cerambyx maculatus Voet, 1778 nec Goeze, 1777
  • Cerambyx ocellatus Degeer, 1778
  • Cerambyx octo-oculatus Thunberg, 1787
  • Cerambyx oculator (Fabricius) Gmelin, 1790
  • Lamia oculator Fabricius, 1775
  • Zographus oculator m. conjunctus Téocchi, 1998

Description

Zographus oculator can reach a body length of 25–35 millimetres (0.98–1.38 in). The basic colour is black, with a transverse median band and large yellow orange-centred pair of eye-like spots (hence the Latin name oculator, from the Latin word oculus, meaning eye) located at the base, towards the tips and at the sides of elytra. These beetles show narrow yellow lines across the head and the thorax, two large rounded tubercles at the sides of the thorax and tiny wrinkles on the elytra.

Distribution

This species can be found in Namibia and South Africa.

References


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