Feather-horned Longhorn Beetle
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Ellura
Feather-horned Longhorn Beetle
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Feather-horned Longhorn Beetle (Piesarthrius laminosus)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Beetles (Coleoptera)
Family: Longhorn Beetle (Cerambycidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Feather-horned Longhorn Beetle (Piesarthrius laminosus)
This Photo:     Antenna
Other names: Longicorn Beetle, Long-horn Beetle or Long Horned Beetle

Thank you Francesco Vitali for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~15mm long with very long thin wide filaments on the antennae.
It's difficult to determine how long the antennae are. Superficially they are a bit over 12mm long. However, the end segment has 2 filaments, of ~5mm long. So really the antennae are ~7mm, with 5mm of filament nearly doubling their length. The filaments vary in length, with the middle being the longest at ~7mm, and both edges being ~5mm.
As with many longhorns, the eyes are heavily indented and wrap around the antennae base.

Copyright © 2018-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 21-Feb-2018
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.