Rhagium mordax

Black-spotted longhorn beetle
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Cerambycidae
Genus: Rhagium
Species:
R. mordax
Binomial name
Rhagium mordax
(DeGeer, 1775)
Synonyms
  • Cerambyx mordax (DeGeer) Gmelin, 1790
  • Leptura mordax DeGeer, 1775
  • Rhagium linnei Laicharting, 1784
  • Rhagium vulgare Samouelle, 1819

Rhagium mordax, the black-spotted longhorn beetle,[1] is a species of long-horned beetle.[2] This beetle is found throughout Europe and to Kazakhstan and Russia.[2] Larvae develop in silver fir, hazel, European weeping birch, European beech, and the European chestnut.[2] Ischnoceros rusticus is an ichneumonid parasitoid wasp that feds on Rhagium mordax larvae.[2]

  1. ^ "Longhorn Beetles | Great Fen". www.greatfen.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-07-21.
  2. ^ a b c d BioLib Taxon profile — species Rhagium mordax (DeGeer, 1775)