Acalolepta vastator: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Genus
- Acalolepta
- Species
- Acalolepta vastator
- Scientific Name
- Acalolepta vastator
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Acalolepta vastator
Acalolepta vastator (fig longicorn beetle or passion vine longhorn beetle) is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Newman in 1841, originally under the genus Monohammus. Breuning erroneously synonymised this species with Acalolepta mixta (Hope, 1841). It is native to and found throughout eastern Australia, including Tasmania and South Australia, as well as parts of South Asia. The Australian government recognize this species as a pest species. It feeds on grape vine (Vitis vinifera), papaya (Carica papaya) and curtain fig tree (Ficus virens).
Acalolepta vastator is gray-brown in color, around 21mm in length and covered in short, adpressed hairs covering the body. The antennae are around 1.5 times the body length. This species has an annual life cycle; adults are visible between October and March, whilst the larvae live inside tree trunks.
This species' life history has been well studied due to its pest activity, for example in the grapevines of New South Wales, Australia (see Goodwin & Pettit, 1994). This species has become such a pest to this area that uses of chemical control are being studied to manage their impact. This species is a Woodboring beetle, it can cause major damage to the vine trunk by tunneling through the trunk and into the roots, leading to die back and crop losses.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Acalolepta admixta
- Acalolepta aesthetica
- Acalolepta albosparsuta
- Acalolepta alorensis
- Acalolepta amamiana
- Acalolepta andamanensis
- Acalolepta andamanica
- Acalolepta annamensis
- Acalolepta argentata
- Acalolepta arrowi
- Acalolepta artensis
- Acalolepta artia
- Acalolepta atra
- Acalolepta atroolivacea
- Acalolepta aurata
- Acalolepta aureofusca
- Acalolepta aureosericea
- Acalolepta aurosericea
- Acalolepta basicornis
- Acalolepta basigranulata
- Acalolepta basimaculata
- Acalolepta basiplagiata
- Acalolepta battonii
- Acalolepta bennigseni
- Acalolepta bicolor
- Acalolepta bifasciata
- Acalolepta biocellata
- Acalolepta birmana
- Acalolepta bisericans
- Acalolepta bispinosa
- Acalolepta bispinosipennis
- Acalolepta blairi
- Acalolepta bolanica
- Acalolepta boninensis
- Acalolepta borneensis
- Acalolepta bretschneideri
- Acalolepta breuningi
- Acalolepta breviscapa
- Acalolepta brunnea
- Acalolepta bryanti
- Acalolepta buruana
- Acalolepta buruensis
- Acalolepta capitosa
- Acalolepta cervina
- Acalolepta chinensis
- Acalolepta convexa
- Acalolepta coreanica
- Acalolepta coreensis
- Acalolepta corpulenta
- Acalolepta crassepunctiformis
- Acalolepta dayremi
- Acalolepta defectrix
- Acalolepta degener
- Acalolepta degeneroides
- Acalolepta densefuscomarmorata
- Acalolepta densepunctata
- Acalolepta dentifera
- Acalolepta dentiferoides
- Acalolepta dispar
- Acalolepta elongata
- Acalolepta enganensis
- Acalolepta fergussoni
- Acalolepta ferriei
- Acalolepta flavidosignata
- Acalolepta flavithorax
- Acalolepta flavomarmorata
- Acalolepta flavosignata
- Acalolepta flocculata
- Acalolepta florensis
- Acalolepta formosana
- Acalolepta fraudatrix
- Acalolepta frenchi
- Acalolepta freudei
- Acalolepta fruhstorferi
- Acalolepta fulvoscutellata
- Acalolepta fuscomarmorata
- Acalolepta fuscopunctata
- Acalolepta fuscosparsuta
- Acalolepta gardneri
- Acalolepta ginkgovora
- Acalolepta gracilis
- Acalolepta grisea
- Acalolepta griseipennis
- Acalolepta griseofumata
- Acalolepta griseomicans
- Acalolepta griseoplagiata
- Acalolepta griseoplagiatoides
- Acalolepta griseovaria
- Acalolepta grisescens
- Acalolepta grossescapus
- Acalolepta hachijoensis
- Acalolepta hainana
- Acalolepta haradai
- Acalolepta hebridarum
- Acalolepta hepatica
- Acalolepta hingstoni
- Acalolepta holonigra
- Acalolepta holotephra
- Acalolepta hunanensis
- Acalolepta impuncticollis
- Acalolepta inaequalis
- Acalolepta indica
- Acalolepta infasciata
- Acalolepta insularis
- Acalolepta iwahashii
- Acalolepta javanica
- Acalolepta kaszabi
- Acalolepta korolensis
- Acalolepta kuniyoshii
- Acalolepta kusamai
- Acalolepta laeviceps
- Acalolepta laevicollis
- Acalolepta laevifrons
- Acalolepta lineata
- Acalolepta longicollis
- Acalolepta longiscapus
- Acalolepta loriai
- Acalolepta luxuriosa
- Acalolepta luzonica
- Acalolepta macrophthalma
- Acalolepta malaccensis
- Acalolepta malaisei
- Acalolepta marianarum
- Acalolepta marmorata
- Acalolepta marshalli
- Acalolepta marshalliana
- Acalolepta masatakai
- Acalolepta mausoni
- Acalolepta meeki
- Acalolepta microspinicollis
- Acalolepta minima
- Acalolepta misella
- Acalolepta moensis
- Acalolepta montana
- Acalolepta nagporensis
- Acalolepta nativitatis
- Acalolepta nivosa
- Acalolepta ovina
- Acalolepta palawana
- Acalolepta permutans
- Acalolepta saintaignani
- Acalolepta sejuncta
- Acalolepta seunghwani
- Acalolepta speciosa
- Acalolepta subaurata
- Acalolepta sublusca
- Acalolepta subtruncata
- Acalolepta sulcicollis
- Acalolepta sulphurifera
- Acalolepta tarsalis
- Acalolepta timorensis
- Acalolepta tincturata
- Acalolepta variolaris
- Acalolepta vastator
- Acalolepta vitalisi
- Dihammus
- Pilohammus
- Plicatodihammus





