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Wallace’s longhorn beetle
Batocera wallacei
-1.89461, 138.77
Field Notes
Description:
Batocera wallacei is a huge "flat-faced" longhorn beetle reaching about 80–85 millimetres (3.1–3.3 in) of length in the males, while the females are smaller. The length of the antenna may reach about 215–230 millimetres (8.5–9.1 in) in the males. The basic colour of the body is greenish-brownish or grey with whitish dorsal patches on the elytra. The larvae are nearly four inches long. This quite common species can be found in Australia (Queensland), New Guinea and Aru and Kei Islands (Moluccas) .
Habitat:
Found on house porch and Bougainvillea sp in a yard in a village. Surrounding habitats include ocean beach, disturbed coastal freshwater swamp forest and sago swamp forest.
Notes:
This longhorn beetle showed up at the house overnight, presumably attracted to a porch light.
Other good image links for this (and other) longhorn beetles http://www.coleop-terra.com/gallery/lamiinae-ii/batocera-wallacei/ and http://www.zin.ru/Animalia/Coleoptera/eng/ziarko2.htm
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