Body length: 35–64mm.
Eyes: eye interommatidial setaeseta:
a sclerotized hair-like projection of the cuticle
present, eye deeply emarginateemarginate:
notched at the margin
> half width, eye ommatidial density coarse or fine.
AntennaeAntenna:
in larval and adult insects, paired segmented appendages, borne one on each side of the head, functioning as sense organs and bearing a large number of sensilla
: antennal length reaches between basebase:
the part of any appendage or structure that is nearest the body
and end of elytraelytron:
the leathery forewing of beetles, serving as a covering for the hind wings, commonly meeting opposite elytron in a straight line down the middle of the dorsum in repose
or reaching/surpassing end of body, antennal flagellar segments elongateelongate:
much longer than wide
, scapescape:
the first proximal segment of the antenna
smooth/punctate at apexapex:
end of any structure distad to the base
or cicatrixcicatrix:
a scar; a scar-like structure
(scar) at apexapex:
end of any structure distad to the base
, antennal segment 3 > scapescape:
the first proximal segment of the antenna
.
Pronotumpronotum:
the upper and dorsal part of the prothorax
: pronotumpronotum:
the upper and dorsal part of the prothorax
shape transversetransverse:
broader than long
, pronotumpronotum:
the upper and dorsal part of the prothorax
lateral armature absent.
Prosternum: prosternal process dilated at apexapex:
end of any structure distad to the base
, procoxal cavities open posteriorly.
ElytraElytron:
the leathery forewing of beetles, serving as a covering for the hind wings, commonly meeting opposite elytron in a straight line down the middle of the dorsum in repose
: elytral length reaching or close to end of abdomen, elytral apicesapex:
end of any structure distad to the base
with tooth or spinespine:
a protuberance with an acute (sharp) distal end
, elytral color black, brown, metallic, or yellow, elytral color pattern absent.
Legs: visible tarsomeres: 4, femora slender, protibial spurs: 2, tarsal claws simple.
Body large. AntennaeAntenna:
in larval and adult insects, paired segmented appendages, borne one on each side of the head, functioning as sense organs and bearing a large number of sensilla
longer (male) or shorter (female) than body, thin markedly toward apexapex:
end of any structure distad to the base
. Pronotumpronotum:
the upper and dorsal part of the prothorax
transversely coarsely rugoserugose:
wrinkled
, rounded laterally, narrows more anteriorly, less posteriorly. ElytraElytron:
the leathery forewing of beetles, serving as a covering for the hind wings, commonly meeting opposite elytron in a straight line down the middle of the dorsum in repose
elongateelongate:
much longer than wide
, smooth, narrowly rounded apically and there, on side of suturesuture:
groove marking the line of fusion of two formerly distinct plates; the line of junction of elytra
, with acutely produced small spinulespinule:
a small spine
(Cherepanov 1988bCherepanov 1988b:
Cherepanov, A.I. 1988b. Cerambycidae of Northern Asia, Vol. 2. Cerambycinae Part I. Oxonian Press, New Delhi 2(1): i-xiii + 1-292, 133 figs.).
Hemadius, Massicus, Cerambyx
The very large body size, smooth elytraelytron:
the leathery forewing of beetles, serving as a covering for the hind wings, commonly meeting opposite elytron in a straight line down the middle of the dorsum in repose
, transversely rugoserugose:
wrinkled
pronotumpronotum:
the upper and dorsal part of the prothorax
with no lateral spines, and males with inflated antennomeresantennomere:
a subunit of the antenna, including the scape, pedicel, and flagellomeres
3–5 distinguish Neocerambyx.
Palearctic (Asia), Indomalaya
broadleaf trees
24 species and another ssp.
Pachydissus (Mallambyx) Bates, 1873: 152
Mesocerambyx Itzinger, 1943: 37
Bulbocerambyx Lazarev, 2019: 1194
Neocerambyx Thomson, 1861: 194