Batocera Wallacei2

''Batocera'' is a genus of the family Cerambycidae, subfamily Lamiinae, close to the genus ''Rosenbergia''.

List of the described species with their distribution

* '' Batocera aeneonigra'' Thomson, 1859 New Guinea, Moluccas, Timor and Key Islands.
* ''Batocera ammiralis'' Breuning, 1947 Admiralty Islands.
* '' Batocera andamana'' Thomson, 1878 Andaman Islands. Common.
* ''Batocera armata'' (Olivier, 1800) Moluccas, New Guinea.
* '' Batocera boisduvali'' (Hope, 1839) Australia.
* '' Batocera breuningi'' Gilmour & Dibb, 1948 Tonkin. Very rare.
* ''Batocera browni'' Bates, 1877 New Hanover, New Ireland, Duke of York Island. Very rare.
* '' Batocera bruyni'' Lansborough, 1880 Sangihe.
* ''Batocera celebiana'' Thomson, 1858 Celebes, Moluccas, Java, Sanihe. Very common.
* ''Batocera celebiana'' ssp. ''pierrotae'' Rigout, 1994
* ''Batocera cinnamonea'' Pascoe, 1866 Sula Islands.
* ''Batocera davidis'' Fairmaire, 1878 Formosa (Taiwan), China, Yunnan, Tonkin.
* ''Batocera enganensis'' 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'' Drapiez, 1819 Java. Very common.
* ''Batocera herbuloti'' (Devecis, 1993) Borneo.
* ''Batocera hercules'' Boisduval, 1835 Celebes, Ambon, Java, Philippines.
* ''Batocera hlaveki'' Rigout, 1988 Maprik, New Guinea. Only some specimens known.
* ''Batocera horsfieldi'' (Hope, 1839) China, Himalayas.
* ''Batocera humeridens'' Thomson, 1859 Timor, Flores, Moa and Allor Islands.
* ''Batocera inconspicua'' Van de Poll, 1890 New Guinea, Solomon Islands: Bougainville, Guadalcanal.
* ''Batocera itzingeri'' (Breuning, 1942) Sumatra, Malaysia
* ''Batocera kibleri'' Schwarzer, 1925 Solomon Islands (Bougainville). Very common.
* ''Batocera laena'' 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'' Chevrolat, 1852 Japan, China. Very common.
* ''Batocera maculata'' (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'' (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'' (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'' (Pascoe, 1866) Malaysia, Sumatra.

* ''Batocera strandi'' 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'' N. Ohbayashi, 1981 Taiwan.
* '' Batocera victoriana'' Thomson, 1856 Borneo, Sumatra, Tonkin, Malaysia. Very common.
* ''Batocera wallacei'' Thomson, 1858 New Guinea, Aru Island, Key Island, Cape York. Very common.
* ''Batocera woodlarkiana'' 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, volume 1, Batocerini I, Sciences Nat, Venett

* Rigout (J.), 1982 - The Beetles of the World, 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.

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Video of Batocera in Thailand

Batocerini
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