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Longicorn beetle

noun
1.
Long-bodied beetle having very long antennae.  Synonyms: long-horned beetle, longicorn.





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... and by many their luscious fruit is preferred to all others. My trees suffered greatly from the attacks of a large and fine longicorn beetle (Taeniotes scalaris, Fab.) which laid its eggs in the green bark, and produced white grubs that mined into the stem. I had to dig down to them with a knife to extricate them and prevent them destroying the young trees. We were surrounded at a short ...
— The Naturalist in Nicaragua • Thomas Belt


Words linked to "Longicorn beetle" :   family Cerambycidae, sawyer beetle, beetle, sawyer, longicorn, Cerambycidae


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