Ceroplesis orientalis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst in 1786. It is known from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Cameroon, Malawi, Kenya, Gabon, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Namibia, Somalia, Tanzania, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Togo.[1] It feeds on Acacia decurrens and Acacia abyssinica.
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Cerambycidae |
Genus: | Ceroplesis |
Species: | C. orientalis
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Binomial name | |
Ceroplesis orientalis (Herbst, 1786)
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Varietiess
edit- Ceroplesis orientalis var. latevittata Fairmaire, 1891
- Ceroplesis orientalis var. leonensis Hintz, 1919
References
edit- ^ BioLib.cz - Ceroplesis orientalis. Retrieved on 8 September 2014.