Rhagium mordax

Black-spotted longhorn beetle
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
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]

Subtaxa

There are five formally described varieties:[2]

• Rhagium mordax var. altajense Plavilstshikov, 1915
• Rhagium mordax var. klenkai Heyrovský, 1914
• Rhagium mordax var. mediofasciatum Plavilstshikov, 1936
• Rhagium mordax var. morvandicum Pic, 1927
• Rhagium mordax var. subdilatatum Pic, 1917

References

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