Pterolophia Casta
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''Pterolophia casta'' 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. Biography He was born in Penzance, Cornwall and trained at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London. Appointed surgeon in the Nav ...
in 1875. It is known from
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Retrieved on 8 September 2014.


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casta () is a term which means "lineage" in Spanish and Portuguese and has historically been used as a racial and social identifier. In the context of the Spanish America, Spanish Empire in the Americas it also refers to a now-discredited 20th-centu ...
Beetles described in 1875 {{Pterolophia-stub