Subject: Longhorned Beetle
Geographic location of the bug: Kinabalu Park, Borneo
Date: 07/01/2018
Time: 05:26 PM EDT
Your letter to the bugman: Spotted this beetle in the grounds of our hotel in Kinabalu Park. While it is obviously a Longhorned Beetle, I’ve not managed to find anything quite like it on the net. Can you identify it please?
How you want your letter signed: Pete Rowland
Dear Pete,
Our initial search did not produce a species identification for you. The tufted antennae on your individual are distinctive and other Longicorns, including Batus barbicornis pictured on Insect Collective share that trait.
Update: Both Cesar Crash and Karl wrote in to identify Thysia wallichii which is pictured on Cerambycoidea.com, Jungle Dragon and on FlickR.
Must be Thysia wallichii wallichii:
https://apps2.cdfa.ca.gov/publicApps/plant/bycidDB/wdetails.asp?id=27045&w=o
Thanks so much Cesar. Karl also wrote in with the same idenficiation and a link to the same site.
Must be Thysia wallichii wallichii:
https://apps2.cdfa.ca.gov/publicApps/plant/bycidDB/wdetails.asp?id=27045&w=o
Check out Thysia [Diastocera] wallichii.
https://apps2.cdfa.ca.gov/publicApps/plant/bycidDB/wthumb.asp?g=Thysia&w=o
Thanks Karl. Cesar Crash also wrote in with the same identification and a link to the same site.
Check out Thysia [Diastocera] wallichii.
https://apps2.cdfa.ca.gov/publicApps/plant/bycidDB/wthumb.asp?g=Thysia&w=o