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Giant longicorn? from Uganda
Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 4:11 AM
This giant longicorn (?) flew to my dads shirt in our hotel at nile river in Uganda. It was midday during rain session (November) in Murchison Falls National Park (North West Uganda).
Please help me identify this bug, since I cannot seem to find any reliable information about bugs in the internet other than your (truly amazing) site!
David Jule
Murchison Falls National Park, North West Uganda

Unknown Longicorn from Uganda

Hi David,
That is one impressive Longicorn. Sadly, we are unsure of its exact identity. Hopefully, one of our readers will be able to supply you with a species name. We are also not certain what a Bockkäfer is, the name you have given the photo file, but we like the name.

Hi Daniel!
Bockkäfer is in fact german for “longicorn” but I can imagine that it really looks weird with this amount of “ckk”
I’m going to get the “Insects of South Africa” book from the library and hopefully that will give me some ID.
I keep you on track!
Best regards!
David

Update: Giant longicorn? from Uganda
Sun, May 3, 2009 at 11:15 PM
Hey Daniel!
Thanks to Karl Adelbaur from the Landesmuseum Joanneum in Austria, the Longicorn from Uganda is a male Macrotoma palmata, (underfamily Prioninae). It’s common name is Large Brown Longhorn and it’s distributed nearly all over africa. I think it feed’s on wood, fruits and woodlike plants, especially Acacia.
Dear greetings,
David J. Mack

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