Chinaberry yellow-banded longhorn beetle
Anoplophora horsfieldii
Name means: “named in honour of Thomas Horsfield”
The chinaberry yellow-banded longhorn beetle is a big, shiny black beetle with wide pale yellow stripes across its back. It has very long feelers, like all longhorn beetles. It lives in Southeast Asia and China.
Lives in
Thailand, Vietnam, China and Taiwan
Length
3.5 cm (1.4 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not sting. Like many big beetles it can nip with its jaws if grabbed, so just watch it.
What does it eat?
Its larvae grow inside plants such as the tea plant, oaks, elms and hackberries.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 6 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 7.7 seconds
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How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Chinaberry yellow-banded longhorn beetle about 0.47 km/h (0.29 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It can grow to about 35 millimetres long.
2
It has pale yellow marks on its head and on its neck shield as well as on its back.
3
Scientists split it into two kinds, called subspecies.
you asked
Most asked questions about Chinaberry yellow-banded longhorn beetle
?How big is the chinaberry yellow-banded longhorn beetle?
It can grow to about 35 millimetres long.
?Where does the chinaberry yellow-banded longhorn beetle live?
In Thailand, Vietnam, China and Taiwan.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anoplophora horsfieldii
- Named by
- Hope, 1842
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Anoplophora horsfieldii (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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