Biology:Zographus oculator

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Short description: Species of beetle

Zographus oculator
Cerambycidae - Zographus oculator.jpg
Museum specimen of Zographus oculator
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
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

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

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

Wikidata ☰ Q14823403 entry