Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE / Tribus: XYSTROCERINI
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Xystrocera globosa, a striking Oriental longhorn beetle introduced to Arabian Peninsula, North Africa and Near East, has been described from Jakarta enviros (Indonesia) as Cerambix globosus by Guillaume-Antoine Olivier in 1795 [★].
Body length: 15 - 35 mm Life cycle: 2 -3 years Adults in: April - July Host plant: polyphagous in broadleaf trees Distribution: Egypt, Israel, United Arab Emirates, Oriental region and South-East Palaearctic region
Depicted mounted beetle s were collected in: ♂ - Mito environs (Yamaguchi prefecture, Japan) on June 22, 1986; ♀ - Nachal Na'aman (Na'aman River) environs (10 m a.s.l., Kirjat Bialik, Haifa district, Israel) on May 29, 2016.Collected by Takahisa Watanabe and Oleg Pak
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Olivier G.-A.:
Entomologie ou Histoire Naturelle des Insectes, avec leurs caractères génériques et spécifiques, leur description, leur synonymie et leur figure enluminée.
Coléoptères: Imprimerie de Lanneau, Paris 4: 519pp, 1795. [download]
| Subfamilia | Cerambycinae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Xystrocerini Blanchard, 1845 |
| Genus | Xystrocera Audinet-Serville, 1834 |
| Species | Xystrocera globosa (Olivier, 1795) |