Spider longhorned beetle
The spider longhorned beetle is a grey-brown beetle from Central and South America and the Caribbean. Like other longhorn beetles, it has long feelers on its head. Farmers in its home countries know it well, because it eats their crops.
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Fun facts
Carl Linnaeus, the famous scientist who gave many animals their scientific names, described it in 1767.
Scientists know seven subspecies of it, some of them living on different Caribbean islands.
It is about 2 to 3 centimetres long, about as long as a grape.
Most asked questions about Spider longhorned beetle
?Is the spider longhorned beetle dangerous?
No. It is harmless to people, but it can damage cassava and sugar cane.
?How big is the spider longhorned beetle?
About 20 to 28 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lagocheirus araneiformis
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1767
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
Where the facts come from
- Lagocheirus araneiformis (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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