Ribbed Pine Borer
Rhagium inquisitor (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Description

Monotypic genus. Note pronotum with dark stripe and spine on each side, relative short antennae for family.

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Considered a pest of conifers, especially pines in the genus Pinus.

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Rhagium inquisitor
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Cerambycidae
Genus: Rhagium
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R. inquisitor
Binomial name
Rhagium inquisitor

Rhagium inquisitor, the ribbed pine borer, is a species of longhorn beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae.[1] It is distributed widely in the Holarctic, and its larvae burrow into the wood of larch, pine, spruce, birch and oak trees.[2]

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  1. ^ Bezark, Larry G. A Photographic Catalog of the Cerambycidae of the World Archived 2013-08-27 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
  2. ^ Svatopluk Bílý; O. Mehl (1989). Longhorn Beetles - Coleoptera, Cerambycidae - of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Brill. ISBN 90-04-08697-8.