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Oplatocera

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Oplatocera is a genus of longhorn beetles with about ten species distributed in Asia. The genus is identified by the wide mandibles without teeth on their inner edge with the base being hairy. The antenna base has a thick joint and the third segment is longer than the fourth and the segments shorten from base to tip. The third to seventh antennal segments have spines on the outer margins in some species.

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GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderColeoptera
  5. FamilyCerambycidae

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Cerambycidae
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Parent taxon
Xystrocerini
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Oplatocera callidioides White, 1853 (Cerambycidae Cerambycinae) Type (10814368465).jpg
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Oplatocera is a genus of longhorn beetles with about ten species distributed in Asia. The genus is identified by the wide mandibles without teeth on their inner edge with the base being hairy. The antenna base has a thick joint and the third segment is longer than the fourth and the segments shorten from base to tip. The third to seventh antennal segments have spines on the outer margins in some species.

Species are divided into two subgenera and the species currently included in the genus are: Subgenus Epioplatocera Oplatocera chujoi - Philippines (Mindanao) Oplatocera detersa - Sumatra Oplatocera halli - South India Oplatocera khasimontana - NE India (Assam, Khasi Hills) Oplatocera maculata - Vietnam (Tonkin) Oplatocera mandibulata - Taiwan Oplatocera mitonoi - Taiwan Oplatocera oberthuri - Himalayas Oplatocera shibatai - Borneo, W. Malaysia Oplatocera siamensis - Thailand (Chiang Mai) Oplatocera simulata - Laos (Hua Phan) Subgenus Oplatocera (synonym Hoplitocera ) Oplatocera aurociliata - NE Laos Oplatocera callidioides - China (Sichuan), Taiwan, "North India" Laos Oplatocera grandis - China (Sichuan), Oplatocera perroti - Vietnam (Tonkin)

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