Wattle Longhorn Beetle
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Ellura
Callitris Longhorn Beetle
Larva, "mouth"
 
                      
Callitris Longhorn Beetle (Cerambycidae cf sp ES01)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Beetles (Coleoptera)
Family: Longhorn Beetle (Cerambycidae)
Species: Callitris Longhorn Beetle (Cerambycidae cf sp ES01)
This Photo:     🔍Larva, dorsal🔎
Other names: Longicorn Beetle, Long-horn Beetle or Long Horned Beetle

Thank you Greg Baker & Andy Szito for helping with the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
We were inspecting a recently fallen, dead, callitris tree. Marie noticed a grub inside a broken twig. Given callitris has natural invert inhibitors, we were surprised. We prized it out and were *VERY* concerned it looked a lot like European House Borer (Hylotrupes bajulus); or EHB for short. We posted on the Amateur Entomology Australia facebook group and Andy Szito (WA DPIRD) suggested we contact Greg Baker at SARDI. We sent it off to Greg for confirmation, who then sent it off to Andy for DNA testing.
Fortunately it wasn't EHB. It didn't match any known species in the DNA database, but was "most likely another Cerambycidae spp".
This specimen was ~13mm long.

Copyright © 2017-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 04-Jul-2017
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.