Tragocerus is a genus of longhorn beetle from western regions of Australia.
Tragocerus is a genus of longhorn beetle from western regions of Australia.
== Description == Members of the genus Tragocerus are diagnosed by having filiform (threadlike) antennae, slightly shorter than the body. Tragocerus species appear to be mimics of wasps, similar to the genera Agapete, Hesthesis, and Macrones, as noted by A. J Nicholson in 1927. The elytra (the hardened forewings characteristic of beetles) are long and rectangular. They are fused along the mid-dorsal line to form a solid unit, though each elytron has indentations just above the hindwing's point of origin, allowing it to move without meaningful disruption. This makes it more difficult to identify them as beetles when in flight. Despite the convincingness of this facade while airborne, the anatomy and sluggish movements upon landing betray the true identity of a Tragocerus beetle.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).