Desert Longhorn: Profile

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Beetles (Coleoptera)

Family:

Longhorn Beetle (Cerambycidae)

Species:

Desert Longhorn (Microtragus mormon)

This Photo:

Profile

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), and elsewhere
Almost spider like with very long legs and antennae.
Note the odd shaped compound eyes and 2 pair of ridges along it's back. The middle ridges start with small horn like projections.
It's covered in fine hairs, not visible to the eye, which enhance the white patches on the rear ridges.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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