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Longhorn Beetle

Apriona sp.

Description:

Close encounters of an alien kind… a.k.a. a Longhorn beetle; body length 5 cm / 2 inches.

Habitat:

Hills overlooking Manila.

2 Comments

AnnvanWijgerden
AnnvanWijgerden 9 years ago

Thanks so much for your ID help bayucca!

bayucca
bayucca 9 years ago

Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Batocerini. This is in my eyes safe. And it is most probably not a Batocera sp., but an Apriona sp. Please, verify!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/53906044@N...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/53906044@N...
Might be Apriona rixator, but that's only a tentative guess...
http://www.cerambycoidea.com/foto.asp?Id...

AnnvanWijgerden
Spotted by
AnnvanWijgerden

Antipolo, Rizal, Philippines

Spotted on Oct 16, 2014
Submitted on Oct 16, 2014

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