Macrodontia (genus)

Taxobox
name = "Macrodontia"

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image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Coleoptera
subordo = Polyphaga
familia = Cerambycidae
subfamilia = Prioninae
genus = "Macrodontia"
genus_authority = Lepeletier & Audinet-Serville, 1830

subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision ="Macrodontia batesi"
"Macrodontia cervicornis"
"Macrodontia crenata"
"Macrodontia dejeani"
"Macrodontia flavipennis"
"Macrodontia jolyi"
"Macrodontia marechali"
"Macrodontia mathani"
"Macrodontia zischkai"

"Macrodontia" Lepeletier & Audinet-Serville, 1830 is a genus of American long-horned beetles of the subfamily Prioninae, tribe Macrodontiini.

Description

The body size is large or even giant. The body is flattened, opaque, all brown or orange with longitudinal black strips. The males typically have enormous jaws, from which it derives its name "Macrodontia", that is "large tooth". On the contrary, the antennae are relatively short with respect to many other cerambycids.

Distribution

The genus is original from South America, but the 10 known species range from Guatemala to Argentina.

"Macrodontia" includes the following species:

* "Macrodontia batesi" Lameere, 1912
* "Macrodontia cervicornis" (Linnaeus, 1758)
* "Macrodontia crenata" (Olivier, 1795)
* "Macrodontia dejeani" Gory, 1839
* "Macrodontia flavipennis" Chevrolat, 1833
* "Macrodontia itayensis" Simoens, 2006
* "Macrodontia jolyi" Bleuzen, 1994
* "Macrodontia marechali" Bleuzen, 1990
* "Macrodontia mathani" Pouillaude, 1915
* "Macrodontia zischkai" Tippmann, 1960

External links

* [http://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id55573/ List of Macrodontia species]
* [http://www.cerambycoidea.com/specieric.asp?Tipo=R&RIC=macrodontia Gallery of" Macrodontia"-species]