Unequal-lined Wattle Longhorn Beetle
S1, Female, Elytra, dorsal
Ellura
Acacia Longhorn Beetle
 
                      
Unequal-lined Wattle Longhorn Beetle (Ancita anisoceroides)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Beetles (Coleoptera)
Family: Longhorn Beetle (Cerambycidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Unequal-lined Wattle Longhorn Beetle (Ancita anisoceroides)
This Photo:     🔍S2, Male, ventral🔎
Other names: Acacia Longicorn Beetle, Long-horn Beetle or Long Horned Beetle

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Female ~10.5mm, male ~8mm.
We found a pair mating in a Hard-leaved Wattle (Acacia sclerophylla var sclerophylla), one of the few to be in fruit this year. Up until recently we were experiencing the worst drought in 20 years. Now we are the 5th driest year after a deluge a couple of weeks ago.
There were others in the same bush mating, but they dropped to the ground before we could catch them.
To the naked eye these looked grey, the brown lines weren't visible. Unfortunately the photo's make them look much blacker.

Copyright © 2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 08-Nov-2024
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.