Ceroplesis aestuans, an interesting representative of the Ethiopian longhorn beetle fauna reaching the Maghreb region (Southern Morocco) in the northern borders of its occurence, has been described
from Senegal as Cerambyx aestuans by Guillaume-Antoine Olivier in 1800 [✱]. Larval development in wood of Vachellia (former Acacia) species. Adults, active from November to May,
are nocturnal and can be attracted by light [❖][✮].
| Body length: | 21 - 35 mm |
| Life cycle: | 1 - 2 years |
| Adults in: | November - January, May |
| Host plant: | Vachellia tortilis in Morocco |
| Distribution: | Morocco, Ethiopian region (Niger, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Kamerun, Central African Republic, Kongo-Kinshasa, Uganda) |
Depicted mounted beetle (30 mm) was collected 14 km south of M'Bour (M'Bour department, Thiès region, Senegal) on October 8-20, 1992. The living specimen was reared from larva found in Vachellia tortilis stem
in Smara (السمارة) environs (Western Sahara, Morocco) in May 2022.
Collected by Udo Schmidt and Petr Jelínek
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Olivier G.-A.:
Entomologie ou Histoire Naturelle des Insectes, avec leurs caractères génériques et spécifiques, leur description, leur synonymie et leur figure enluminée Coléoptères.
Imprimerie de Lanneau, Paris 4: 1-519 (1795), 1800.
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Rungs Ch.:
A propos de quelques coléoptères Cérambycidae du Maroc.
Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 52 (7): 97-101, 1947.
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Trócoli S.:
Actualización del catálogo de Longicornios de Marruecos Actualisation du catalogue des Longicornes du Maroc (Parte IV / Partie IV : Cerambycidae : Lamiinae).
Revue de l'Association Roussillonnaise d'Entomologie (R.A.R.E.) 29 (1): 26-65, 2020.
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