Cantharocnemis (Cantharocnemis) spondyloides, a species widely distributed on the African continent and the Arabian Peninsula, has been described from Senegal by Jean-Guillaume Audinet-Serville in 1832 [▽].

Body length:	26 - 46 mm
Life cycle:	unknown
Adults in:	July-September
Host plant:	probably polyphagous on broadleaved trees and shrubs
Distribution:	WP: Egypt, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen [▽]

The depicted female beetle was collected in Al Sageed environs (N16°51′52″ E41°56′05″, 8 m a.s.l, Farasan Island, Farasan governorate, Jizan province, Saudi Arabia) in November 16, 2023.

Collected by our friend Walter Grosser

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Audinet-Serville A.:
Nouvelle classification de la famille des longicornes.
Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, Paris (1) 1: 118-201, 1832. [download ]

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Drumont A.:
Compléments à l'étude du genre Cantharocnemis (1ère note) : revalidation du sous-genre Paracantharocnemis Plavilstshikov, 1933 et premières captures de C. (C.) spondyloides Serville, 1832 en Afrique du Sud et au Sultanat d' Oman (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Entomologia Africana 9 (2): 29-37, 2004. [download ]

Quentin R.M., Simonetta J.:
Révision du genre Cantharocnemis Serville (Coleoptera : Cerambycidae). Les sous-genres Cantharocnemis sensu stricto et Cantharofoedus Gilmour.
Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 28 (1): 83-100, 1992. [download