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Rhagium mordax

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Species of beetle

Black-spotted longhorn beetle
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Cerambycidae
Genus: Rhagium
Species: R. mordax
Binomial name
Rhagium mordax
(DeGeer, 1775)
Synonyms
  • Cerambyx mordax (DeGeer) Gmelin, 1790
  • Leptura mordax DeGeer, 1775
  • Rhagium linnei Laicharting, 1784
  • Rhagium vulgare Samouelle, 1819

Rhagium mordax, the black-spotted longhorn beetle, is a species of long-horned beetle. This beetle is found throughout Europe and to Kazakhstan and Russia. Larvae develop in silver fir, hazel, European weeping birch, European beech, and the European chestnut. Ischnoceros rusticus is an ichneumonid parasitoid wasp that feds on Rhagium mordax larvae.

Subtaxa

There are five formally described varieties:

  • Rhagium mordax var. altajense Plavilstshikov, 1915
  • Rhagium mordax var. klenkai Heyrovský, 1914
  • Rhagium mordax var. mediofasciatum Plavilstshikov, 1936
  • Rhagium mordax var. morvandicum Pic, 1927
  • Rhagium mordax var. subdilatatum Pic, 1917

References

  1. "Longhorn Beetles | Great Fen". www.greatfen.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-07-21.
  2. ^ BioLib Taxon profile — species Rhagium mordax (DeGeer, 1775)
Taxon identifiers
Rhagium mordax

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