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FAMILY CERAMBYCIDAE
- This page contains pictures and information about Longicorn Beetles of subfamily
Lamiinae that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland,
Australia.
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- Fig Longicorn Beetle
 
- Acalolepta vastator, tribe Monochamini, body length 35mm
- The first picture was taken near our windows on 20 OCT 00. It was attracted
to our window by the window light.
- Then we sometimes find them when bush walking. They are quite common in
Brisbane. Their antenna are 1.5 time of its body length. The beetle is grayish
brown in colour. There this the sharp points on its shoulder part of its
forewings. There are another two sharp points on it thorax. More information
please click here.
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- Longicorn Beetle
 - Monohammus frenchi, tribe Monochamini, body length 35mm
 - We found this beetle on the wall outside our house early summer.
- Reference:
- 1. Specimen Image Index - Insect Reference Collection Database - ICDB, Western Australian Department of Agriculture
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- She-Oak Longicorn
- ? sp., body length 30mm
- We saw this longicorn once on a
large She-Oak tree in Karawatha Forest during early summer. We cannot ID this
beetle. More pictures of this beetle can be found in this page.
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- Acacia Longicorn Beetle
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Penthea sp., tribe Niphonini, body length 30mm
- In mid summer, on those young Acacia trees in Mt Cotton, we found a few of those Longicorn
Beetles. Some of them are actively moving around. When disturbed, some dropped
onto the ground and played dead, some slowly flied away. More information
and pictures please visit this page.
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- Dark Brown Longicorn Beetle
 
- Platyomopsis nigrovirens , tribe Niphonini, body length 20mm
- This black Longicorn Beetle was found near Wishart Outlook feeding on
Red Bottle Bush. Quite a number of them found on the same tree. They were slow in
motion and concentrating on feeding. They are dark brown in colour with
yellowish-white dots on their thorax and both sides of their forewings. Please
also visit this page for more information
on this beetle.
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- Longicorn Beetle
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 - Zygocera
plumifera,
tribe Zygocerini, body length 20mm
- This Longicorn Beetle was found near Wishart Outlook. It had two cones at the base of
each forewing, or elytra.
It was dark brown in colour with yellowish-white dots on their thorax and
both side of their forewings. When it walked on the tree trunk with lichen, it
was well camouflaged.
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- Acacia Longicorn Beetle II
 - ? Ancita fasciculata, tribe Ancitini, body length 10mm
- This is a small Longicorn Beetle. It is black in colour with white
doted-lines pattern. The femur of all its legs are covered with dense white
hairs. There are hairs on its long antenna too. We found a number of them on a
Acacia tree near Bulimba Creek in Wishart during early summer.
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- Small Longicorn Beetle found on Fern
  - Sybra sp., tribe Ptericoptini, body length 15mm
- Pictures taken early summer in Yugarapul Park, Brisbane.
- We just received a email from Boris Büche advised
that this is a Sybra sp. beetle.
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- Reference:
- 1. Genus
Sybra - BugGuide.Net - Iowa State University Entomology, 2006.
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