The Thin-winged Longicorn Beetle is a big, flat, brown longhorn beetle of East and Southeast Asia that isn't found in the US. Adults are about 1.1–2.4 in (29–60 mm) long, with long antennae, and often fly to lights on summer nights.
Appearance
- Appearance
- Adults are about 1.1–2.4 in (29–60 mm) long, with a flattened reddish-brown to dark brown body, long antennae, and forward-pointing jaws. Females have a tube-shaped egg-laying organ that sticks out from the tip of the abdomen.
Where it lives
- Typical habitats
- Forests
- Wooded parks
- Range
- Native to East and Southeast Asia: the Russian Far East, China, the Korean Peninsula, Japan, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, India, and Malaysia. It does not occur in North America.
Behavior
- Activity
- Active at night and often attracted to lights. During the day adults hide in tree hollows or under bark.
Life cycle
- Larva
- The larva tunnels through dead and dying wood for about two years, sometimes three, before becoming an adult.
- Caterpillar food plants
- Larvae feed in decaying wood of many kinds of trees, both conifers (pine, fir, spruce) and broadleaf trees (willow, poplar, elm, apple, walnut, and others).
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