Beetle (Elegant striped longhorn)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum : Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Cerambycidae (longhorn beetles)
Genus: Calliprason
Scientific name: Calliprason elegans
Scientific synonyms : Drotus elegans
Common name: Elegant striped longhorn,
The Elegant striped longhorn a member of the longhorn beetle family. It is a rare native beetle found in a few scrub and forest areas in the North Island of New Zealand where the leaf-grazing adult1adult feeds on L. scoparium ( Manuka) and Dracophyllum spp (turpentine scrub).
A Calliprason elegans photographed east of Adams Point on the Te Henui walkway.
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