Silver-side Longhorn Beetle
S1: Antenna
Silver-side Longhorn Beetle
S1: Eye
| Silver-side Longhorn Beetle S1: Antenna | | Silver-side Longhorn Beetle S1: Eye | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||
| Order: | Beetles (Coleoptera) | ||||
| Family: | Longhorn Beetle (Cerambycidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Silver-side Longhorn Beetle (Rhytiphora lateralis) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍S1: Head🔎 | ||||
| Synonym: | Symphyletes lateralis | ||||
Thank you Boris Büche & Mark Hura for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere 1st Record for SA on-line: ~15mm head to tail & each antenna is additionally ~18mm long. Unfortunately we found it dead in a cob-web. But in very good condition and worth posting here. Notice the very hairy antennae. Stunning silver patches running down the side of the elytra. Boris highlighted a very similar species, Rhytiphora fraserensis. He pointed to a paper highlighting, amoung other things, the ochre stripe on the pronotum; missing in R. fraserensis. This can be found via the iNat link. The automated counter shows taken in Jan, but that was because we've been dealing with illness and photographing was delayed. | |||||
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