Yellow-spotted longicorn beetle
Psacothea hilaris
The yellow-spotted longicorn beetle is a longhorn beetle from East Asia with yellow spots. Like all longhorn beetles, it has very long feelers. It lives in Japan, China and Korea, and it has even turned up in Italy.
Lives in
North Korea, China and Japan, and brought by people to Italy
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It might nip if you grab it, but it cannot really hurt you.
What does it eat?
Like other longhorn beetles, its larvae live inside trees and chew their way through the wood.
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)
Yellow-spotted longicorn beetle about 0.4 km/h (0.25 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
There are 12 different kinds of it, and many live on small Japanese islands.
2
People accidentally brought it all the way from Asia to Italy.
3
It was first described by the English insect expert Francis Pascoe in 1857.
you asked
Most asked questions about Yellow-spotted longicorn beetle
?Where does the yellow-spotted longicorn beetle live?
In North Korea, China and Japan. It has also been brought to Italy.
?Is the yellow-spotted longicorn beetle dangerous?
No. It is harmless to people.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Psacothea hilaris
- Named by
- Pascoe, 1857
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Europe
Where the facts come from
- Psacothea hilaris (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 Alpsdake. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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