''Batocera'' is a genus of the family
Cerambycidae
The longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae), also known as long-horned or longicorns, are a large family of beetles, with over 35,000 species described. Most species are characterized by extremely long antennae, which are often as long as or longer than ...
, subfamily
Lamiinae
Lamiinae, commonly called flat-faced longhorns, are a subfamily of the longhorn beetle family (Cerambycidae). The subfamily includes over 750 genera, rivaled in diversity within the family only by the subfamily Cerambycinae
Cerambycinae is a s ...
, close to the genus ''
Rosenbergia
''Rosenbergia'' is a genus of longhorn beetles in the subfamily Lamiinae, close to the genus '' Batocera''.
List of the described species and subspecies
* '' Rosenbergia bismarckiana'' Kriesche, 1920
* '' Rosenbergia breuningi'' Rigout, 1982
* ...
''.
List of the described species with their distribution
* ''
Batocera aeneonigra''
Thomson, 1859 New Guinea, Moluccas, Timor and Key Islands.
* ''
Batocera ammiralis
''Batocera ammiralis'' is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Breuning in 1947. It is known from Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officia ...
''
Breuning, 1947 Admiralty Islands.
* ''
Batocera andamana''
Thomson, 1878 Andaman Islands. Common.
* ''
Batocera armata
''Batocera armata'' is a species of flat-faced longhorn beetle in the subfamily Lamiinae of the family Cerambycidae
The longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae), also known as long-horned or longicorns, are a large family of beetles, with over 35,000 ...
''
(Olivier, 1800) Moluccas, New Guinea.
* ''
Batocera boisduvali''
(Hope, 1839) Australia.
* ''
Batocera breuningi''
Gilmour & Dibb, 1948 Tonkin. Very rare.
* ''
Batocera browni
''Batocera browni'' is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae
The longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae), also known as long-horned or longicorns, are a large family of beetles, with over 35,000 species described. Most species are characteriz ...
''
Bates, 1877 New Hanover, New Ireland, Duke of York Island. Very rare.
* ''
Batocera bruyni''
Lansborough, 1880 Sangihe.
* ''
Batocera celebiana
''Batocera celebiana'' is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Thomson in 1858. It is known from Java, the Moluccas
The Maluku Islands (; Indonesian: ''Kepulauan Maluku'') or the Moluccas () are an archipelago in ...
''
Thomson, 1858 Celebes, Moluccas, Java, Sanihe. Very common.
* ''
Batocera celebiana
''Batocera celebiana'' is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Thomson in 1858. It is known from Java, the Moluccas
The Maluku Islands (; Indonesian: ''Kepulauan Maluku'') or the Moluccas () are an archipelago in ...
'' ssp. ''pierrotae''
Rigout, 1994
* ''
Batocera cinnamonea
''Batocera cinnamonea'' is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae
The longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae), also known as long-horned or longicorns, are a large family of beetles, with over 35,000 species described. Most species are charact ...
''
Pascoe, 1866 Sula Islands.
* ''
Batocera davidis
''Batocera davidis'' is a species of beetle from the family Cerambycidae discovered by Leon Fairmaire in 1878. The beetle occurs in China, Taiwan, and Vietnam
Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic o ...
''
Fairmaire, 1878 Formosa (Taiwan), China, Yunnan, Tonkin.
* ''
Batocera enganensis
''Batocera enganensis'' is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Gahan in 1907. It is known from Sumatra
Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within ...
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Gahan, 1907 Engano, Sumatra.
* ''
Batocera forbesii''
(Waterhouse, 1881 Sumatra.
* ''
Batocera frenchi''
Van de Poll, 1886 Australia: Queensland.
* ''
Batocera gerstaeckerii''
Thomson, 1865 Sula Island.
* ''
Batocera gigas
''Batocera gigas'' is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Drapiez in 1819. It is known from Java
Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by t ...
''
Drapiez, 1819 Java. Very common.
* ''
Batocera herbuloti
''Batocera herbuloti'' is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Devecis in 1993. It is known from Borneo
Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geo ...
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(Devecis, 1993) Borneo.
* ''
Batocera hercules
''Batocera hercules'' is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1835. It is known from Indonesia and the Philippines
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Rep ...
''
Boisduval, 1835 Celebes, Ambon, Java, Philippines.
* ''
Batocera hlaveki
''Batocera hlaveki'' is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Rigout in 1988. It is present in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially t ...
''
Rigout, 1988 Maprik, New Guinea. Only some specimens known.
* ''
Batocera horsfieldi
''Batocera horsfieldi'' is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Hope in 1839. It is known from Bhutan, China, India and Myanmar
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IP ...
''
(Hope, 1839) China, Himalayas.
* ''
Batocera humeridens
''Batocera humeridens'' is a species of flat-faced longhorn beetle in the subfamily Lamiinae of the family Cerambycidae.
Description
''Batocera humeridens'' is a large flat-faced longhorn beetle reaching of length. The basic colour of the body ...
''
Thomson, 1859 Timor, Flores, Moa and Allor Islands.
* ''
Batocera inconspicua
''Batocera inconspicua'' is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Van de Poll in 1890. It is known from New Guinea and the Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands is an island country consisting of six major island ...
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Van de Poll, 1890 New Guinea, Solomon Islands: Bougainville, Guadalcanal.
* ''
Batocera itzingeri
''Batocera itzingeri'' is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Breuning in 1942. It is capable of killing an elephant
Elephants are the largest existing land animals. Three living species are currently reco ...
''
(Breuning, 1942) Sumatra, Malaysia
* ''
Batocera kibleri
''Batocera kibleri'' is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Schwarzer in 1925. It is known from the Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smalle ...
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Schwarzer, 1925 Solomon Islands (Bougainville). Very common.
* ''
Batocera laena
''Batocera laena'' is a species of flat-faced longhorn beetle in the subfamily Lamiinae of the family Cerambycidae.
Description
''Batocera laena'' is a huge long-horn beetle reaching about of length. The length of the antenna may reach about .
...
''
Thomson, 1858 New Guinea, Key and Aru Islands, New Britain.
* ''
Batocera lamondi''
Rigout, 1987 Malaita Island.
* ''
Batocera lethuauti''
Schmitt & Le Thuaut, 2000 Sumba Island.
* ''
Batocera lineolata
''Batocera lineolata'' is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Chevrolat in 1852. It is known from China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, ...
''
Chevrolat, 1852 Japan, China. Very common.
* ''
Batocera maculata
''Batocera maculata'' is a species of flat-faced longhorn beetle in the subfamily Lamiinae of the family Cerambycidae. While originally named as "''Lamia tigris''" by Voet in 1778, no name was validly published for this species until 1817; Voet' ...
''
(Schönherr, 1817) Thailand, Sumatra, Java, Borneo. Very common.
* ''
Batocera magica''
Thomson, 1859 Java, Philippines. Common.
* ''
Batocera malleti''
Schmitt, 2000 Laos.
* ''
Batocera matzdorffi''
Kriesche 1915 New Guinea.
* ''
Batocera migsominea''
Gilmour & Dibb, 1948 Tonkin.
* ''
Batocera molitor''
Kriesche, 1915 Eastern India, Philippines, Java, Sumatra, Celebes, Tonkin, Laos. Very common.
* ''
Batocera nebulosa''
Bates, 1877 Duke of York Island, New Britain, New Ireland.
* ''
Batocera numitor''
Newman, 1842 Eastern India, Philippines, Java, Sumatra, Celebes, Tonkin. Very common.
* ''
Batocera oceanica
''Batocera oceanica'' is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Schwarzer in 1914. It is known from the Western Carolines.Batocera parryi
''Batocera parryi'' is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Hope in 1845. It is known from China, India, Laos, Java, Myanmar, Malaysia, Sumatra, and Vietnam
Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), offic ...
''
(Hope, 1845) Himalayas, Tonkin, Sumatra, Java, Borneo. Common.
* ''
Batocera porioni''
Rigout, 1987 Solomon archipelago: Makira Island (San Cristobal).
* ''
Batocera rosenbergi''
Kaup, 1866 Flores, Sumbawa, Lomblen.
* ''
Batocera roylei''
Hope, 1833 Himalayas, Tonkin, Sabah (Borneo)
* ''
Batocera rubus
''Batocera rubus'' is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae''. It is known from Japan, China, Java, India, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, the Philipp ...
''
(Linnaeus, 1758) India, China, Korea, Tonkin, Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Philippines. Very common. Many varieties described
* ''
Batocera rufomaculata''
(De Geer, 1775) West coast of Africa to India. Exists also in the West Indies, and also discovered in Syria. Very common.
* ''
Batocera saundersii
''Batocera saundersii'' is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe
Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe (1 September 1813 – 20 June 1893) was an English entomologist mainly interested in beetles ...
''
(Pascoe, 1866) Malaysia, Sumatra.
![Batocera longhorns 2 Thompson MRD](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Batocera_longhorns_2_Thompson_MRD.jpg)
* ''
Batocera strandi
''Batocera strandi'' is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae
The longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae), also known as long-horned or longicorns, are a large family of beetles, with over 35,000 species described. Most species are characteri ...
''
Breuning, 1954 Celebes (Tindano). Very rare.
* ''
Batocera sumbaensis''
Franz, 1972 Sumba Island.
* ''
Batocera thomsoni''
Javet, 1858 Malaysia, Java, Boeneo. Very common.
* ''
Batocera timorlautensis''
Heller, 1897 Timorlaut Island. Very rare.
* ''
Batocera una''
White, 1858 Vuana Lava (New Hebrides). Only three specimens known.
* ''
Batocera ushijimai
''Batocera ushijimai'' is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by N. Ohbayashi in 1981. It is known from Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the ...
''
N. Ohbayashi, 1981 Taiwan.
* ''
Batocera victoriana''
Thomson, 1856 Borneo, Sumatra, Tonkin, Malaysia. Very common.
* ''
Batocera wallacei
''Batocera wallacei'', common name Wallace's long-horn beetle, is a species of flat-faced longhorn beetle in the subfamily Lamiinae of the family Cerambycidae. The species name honors Alfred Russel Wallace, who discovered this longhorn beetle on ...
''
Thomson, 1858 New Guinea, Aru Island, Key Island, Cape York. Very common.
* ''
Batocera woodlarkiana
''Batocera woodlarkiana'' is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Xavier Montrouzier in 1855. It is found on Woodlark Island, in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini ...
''
Montrouzier, 1855 Woodlark Island. Rare.
* ''
Batocera wyliei''
Chevrolat, 1858 Gabon, Congo (Zaïre), Cameroon, Angola, Guinea,
* ''
Batocera wyliei'' ssp. ''granulipennis''
Breuning, 1948 Ivory Coast.
Species ''incertae sedis''
* ''
Batocera chevrolati''
Thomson, 1859
* ''
Batocera claudia''
Pascoe, 1866
* ''
Batocera drapiezi''
Aurivillius, 1922
* ''
Batocera punctata''
Schwarzer, 1925
* ''
Batocera sentis''
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Bibliography
* Breuning (S. von), 1950 - Lamiaires nouveaux de la collection Lepesme, ''Longicornia'', 1, pp. 518–519
* Gilmour (E. F.) & Dibb (J. R.), 1948 - Revision of the Batocerini (Col., Cerambycidae, Lamiinae), ''Spolia Zeylanica'', 25(1), pp. 1–121, pl. 1-10
* Kriesche (R.), 1915 - Die Gattung ''Batocera'' Cast., ''Archiv für Naturgeschichte'', 80, Abt. A, 11, pp. 111–150
* Rigout (J.), 1981 -
The Beetles of the World
''The Beetles of the World'' is a series of books devoted to Coleopterology. Sciences Nat published the 24 first volumes; the following volumes and the supplements were published by Hillside Books, Canterbury.
The first book authored by Jacques Ri ...
, volume 1, Batocerini I, Sciences Nat, Venett
* Rigout (J.), 1982 -
The Beetles of the World
''The Beetles of the World'' is a series of books devoted to Coleopterology. Sciences Nat published the 24 first volumes; the following volumes and the supplements were published by Hillside Books, Canterbury.
The first book authored by Jacques Ri ...
, volume 2, Batocerini II, Sciences Nat, Venett
* Rigout (J.), 1987, Description d'un nouveau ''Batocera'', ''
Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles'', 54, p. 26
* Rigout (J.), 1987, Description d'un ''Batocera'' nouveau, ''Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles'', 55, p. 10
* Perger (R.) & Vitali (F.), 2012, Revision of the genus ''Megacriodes'' Pascoe, 1866, a new synonym of ''Batocera'' Laporte de Castelnau, 1840 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae), ''Les Cahiers Magellanes (NS)'', 7, pp. 1–17, 31 figs.
External links
Video of Batocera in Thailand
Batocerini
Cerambycidae genera
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