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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Cerambycidae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Rank
  
Species

Class
  
Insecta

Subfamily
  
Lamiinae

Genus
  
Zographus

Order
  
Beetle

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Zographus oculator, the Orange-eyed Long-horn Beetle, is a species of flat-faced longhorn beetles belonging to the family Cerambycidae.

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Description

Zographus oculator can reach a body length of 25–35 millimetres (0.98–1.38 in). The basic colour is black, with a transverse median band and large yellow orange-centred pair of eye-like spots (hence the Latin name oculator, from the Latin word oculus, meaning eye) located at the base, towards the tips and at the sides of elytra. These beetles show narrow yellow lines across the head and the thorax, two large rounded tubercles at the sides of the thorax and tiny wrinkles on the elytra.

Distribution

This species can be found in Namibia and South Africa.

References

Zographus oculator Wikipedia