WOOD BORING AND PESTIFEROUS BEETLES

Family Cerambycidae (Longhorn beetles)

This family contains some of the largest beetles in the collection. Many are elongate with very long antennae. Their larvae take 1-5 years to develop and are mainly found in dead trees or dead parts of trees, some species however develop in living trees and branches (Csoka &Kovacs 1999). The anterior end of the larvae is not broadened and flattened and they are often called round headed borers to distinguish them from the flat headed borers of the buprestid larvae (Borror et al. 1981). As adults many cerambycids feed on flowers.

Aeolesthes holosericea	Astinomus aedilis
Cerambyx cerdo	Cerambyx cerdo larva in wood
Ceroplesis capensis	Compocerus equestris
Dichares ambigenus	Embrith strandia

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Hermadius openochrous	Hoplocerambyx spinicornis
Megacyllene mellyi	Monochamus maculosus
Oxymerus virgatus	Phoracantha recurua
Rhagium bifasciatum	Rhopalophora iridipennis

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Termisternus stolotes	Trichtonotama davidi
Family Cerambycidae: larval damage	Batocera numitor