Umbellifer longhorn beetle
The umbellifer longhorn beetle is a slim little beetle with long feelers. It belongs to the longhorn beetles, a big family famous for their long antennae. It lives on plants with flat, umbrella-shaped flower heads.
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Fun facts
Its name tells you what it likes. Umbellifers are plants whose tiny flowers sit together in a flat shape, like an open umbrella.
The famous scientist Carl Linnaeus gave it its scientific name way back in 1758.
It is about 6 to 12 millimetres long, so even the biggest ones are only about as long as your fingernail is wide.
Most asked questions about Umbellifer longhorn beetle
?What does the umbellifer longhorn beetle eat?
Plants from the carrot family, such as wild carrot, cow parsley and hogweed.
?How big is the umbellifer longhorn beetle?
It is small, about 6 to 12 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Phytoecia cylindrica
- Named by
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Phytoecia cylindrica (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 Siga. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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