Lebbek borer
Xystrocera globosa
Name means: “its group name comes from Greek words for a scraping tool and a horn”
The lebbek borer is a reddish brown longhorn beetle with long reddish feelers. It has dark bands on its wing cases. Its name tells us that its young bore tunnels inside trees.
Lives in
Southern and Southeast Asia and northern Australia, and now in many other warm places
Length
1.5 to 3.2 cm (0.59 to 1.3 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not sting.
What does it eat?
Like other longhorn beetles, its young chew tunnels in tree wood, such as in lebbek and monkeypod trees.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 5 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 8 seconds
How big is Lebbek borer compared to YOU?
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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)
Lebbek borer about 0.45 km/h (0.28 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It was first described in 1795 from beetles found near Batavia, the old name of Jakarta.
2
People have carried it by accident to Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Madagascar, Egypt and Israel.
3
It lives from Japan and Korea all the way to Sri Lanka and New Guinea.
you asked
Most asked questions about Lebbek borer
?How big is the lebbek borer?
It is 1.5 to 3.2 centimetres long.
?Why is it called a borer?
Its young bore tunnels inside trees and eat the wood.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Xystrocera globosa
- Named by
- Olivier, 1795
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Cerambycidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania, Africa, North America
- Also known as
- Monkeypod roundheaded borer, Green-lined albizzia longicorn
Where the facts come from
- Xystrocera globosa (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 anukma. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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