Rhagium mordax
| Black-spotted longhorn beetle | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Cerambycidae |
| Genus: | Rhagium |
| Species: | R. mordax
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| Binomial name | |
| Rhagium mordax (DeGeer, 1775)
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Rhagium mordax, the black-spotted longhorn beetle,[1] is a species of long-horned beetle.[2] This beetle is found throughout Europe and to Kazakhstan and Russia.[2] Larvae develop in silver fir, hazel, European weeping birch, European beech, and the European chestnut.[2] Ischnoceros rusticus is an ichneumonid parasitoid wasp that feds on Rhagium mordax larvae.[2]
Subtaxa[]
There are five formally described varieties:[2]
- 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[]
Categories:
- Lepturinae
- Beetles described in 1775
- Taxa named by Charles De Geer
- Lepturinae stubs