Batocera is a genus of the family Cerambycidae, subfamily Lamiinae, close to the genus Rosenbergia.
List of the described species with their distribution
- Batocera aeneonigra <small>Thomson, 1859</small> New Guinea, Moluccas, Timor and Key Islands.
- Batocera ammiralis <small>Breuning, 1947</small> Admiralty Islands.
- Batocera andamana <small>Thomson, 1878</small> Andaman Islands. Common.
- Batocera armata <small>(Olivier, 1800)</small> Moluccas, New Guinea.
- Batocera boisduvali <small>(Hope, 1839)</small> Australia.
- Batocera breuningi <small>Gilmour & Dibb, 1948</small> Tonkin. Very rare.
- Batocera browni <small>Bates, 1877</small> New Hanover, New Ireland, Duke of York Island. Very rare.
- Batocera bruyni <small>Lansborough, 1880</small> Sangihe.
- Batocera celebiana <small>Thomson, 1858</small> Celebes, Moluccas, Java, Sanihe. Very common.
- Batocera celebiana ssp. pierrotae <small>Rigout, 1994</small>
- Batocera cinnamonea <small>Pascoe, 1866</small> Sula Islands.
- Batocera davidis <small>Fairmaire, 1878</small> Formosa (Taiwan), China, Yunnan, Tonkin.
- Batocera enganensis <small>Gahan, 1907</small> Engano, Sumatra.
- Batocera forbesii <small>(Waterhouse, 1881</small> Sumatra.
- Batocera frenchi <small>Van de Poll, 1886</small> Australia: Queensland.
- Batocera gerstaeckerii <small>Thomson, 1865</small> Sula Island.
- Batocera gigas <small>Drapiez, 1819</small> Java. Very common.
- Batocera herbuloti <small>(Devecis, 1993)</small> Borneo.
- Batocera hercules <small>Boisduval, 1835</small> Celebes, Ambon, Java, Philippines.
- Batocera hlaveki <small>Rigout, 1988</small> Maprik, New Guinea. Only some specimens known.
- Batocera horsfieldi <small>(Hope, 1839)</small> China, Himalayas.
- Batocera humeridens <small>Thomson, 1859</small> Timor, Flores, Moa and Allor Islands.
- Batocera inconspicua <small>Van de Poll, 1890</small> New Guinea, Solomon Islands: Bougainville, Guadalcanal.
- Batocera itzingeri <small>(Breuning, 1942)</small> Sumatra, Malaysia
- Batocera kibleri <small>Schwarzer, 1925</small> Solomon Islands (Bougainville). Very common.
- Batocera laena <small>Thomson, 1858</small> New Guinea, Key and Aru Islands, New Britain.
- Batocera lamondi <small>Rigout, 1987</small> Malaita Island.
- Batocera lethuauti <small>Schmitt & Le Thuaut, 2000</small> Sumba Island.
- Batocera lineolata <small>Chevrolat, 1852</small> Japan, China. Very common.
- Batocera maculata <small>(Schönherr, 1817)</small> Thailand, Sumatra, Java, Borneo. Very common.
- Batocera magica <small>Thomson, 1859</small> Java, Philippines. Common.
- Batocera malleti <small>Schmitt, 2000</small> Laos.
- Batocera matzdorffi <small>Kriesche 1915</small> New Guinea.
- Batocera migsominea <small>Gilmour & Dibb, 1948</small> Tonkin.
- Batocera molitor <small>Kriesche, 1915</small> Eastern India, Philippines, Java, Sumatra, Celebes, Tonkin, Laos. Very common.
- Batocera nebulosa <small>Bates, 1877</small> Duke of York Island, New Britain, New Ireland.
- Batocera numitor <small>Newman, 1842</small> Eastern India, Philippines, Java, Sumatra, Celebes, Tonkin. Very common.
- Batocera oceanica <small>Schwarzer, 1914</small> Palau Island (South Carolina Islands). rare.
- Batocera parryi <small>(Hope, 1845)</small> Himalayas, Tonkin, Sumatra, Java, Borneo. Common.
- Batocera porioni <small>Rigout, 1987</small> Solomon archipelago: Makira Island (San Cristobal).
- Batocera rosenbergi <small>Kaup, 1866</small> Flores, Sumbawa, Lomblen.
- Batocera roylei <small>Hope, 1833</small> Himalayas, Tonkin, Sabah (Borneo)
- Batocera rubus <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small> India, China, Korea, Tonkin, Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Philippines. Very common. Many varieties described
- Batocera rufomaculata <small>(De Geer, 1775)</small> West coast of Africa to India. Exists also in the West Indies, and also discovered in Syria. Very common.
- Batocera saundersii <small>(Pascoe, 1866)</small> Malaysia, Sumatra.
- Batocera strandi <small>Breuning, 1954</small> Celebes (Tindano). Very rare.
- Batocera sumbaensis <small>Franz, 1972</small> Sumba Island.
- Batocera thomsoni <small>Javet, 1858</small> Malaysia, Java, Boeneo. Very common.
- Batocera timorlautensis <small>Heller, 1897</small> Timorlaut Island. Very rare.
- Batocera una <small>White, 1858</small> Vuana Lava (New Hebrides). Only three specimens known.
- Batocera ushijimai <small>N. Ohbayashi, 1981</small> Taiwan.
- Batocera victoriana <small>Thomson, 1856</small> Borneo, Sumatra, Tonkin, Malaysia. Very common.
- Batocera wallacei <small>Thomson, 1858</small> New Guinea, Aru Island, Key Island, Cape York. Very common.
- Batocera woodlarkiana <small>Montrouzier, 1855</small> Woodlark Island. Rare.
- Batocera wyliei <small>Chevrolat, 1858</small> Gabon, Congo (Zaïre), Cameroon, Angola, Guinea,
- Batocera wyliei ssp. granulipennis <small>Breuning, 1948</small> Ivory Coast.
Species incertae sedis
Bibliography
- Breuning (S. von), 1950 - Lamiaires nouveaux de la collection Lepesme, Longicornia, 1, pp. 518âÂÂ519
- Gilmour (E. F.) & Dibb (J. R.), 1948 - Revision of the Batocerini (Col., Cerambycidae, Lamiinae), Spolia Zeylanica, 25(1), pp. 1âÂÂ121, pl. 1-10
- Kriesche (R.), 1915 - Die Gattung Batocera Cast., Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 80, Abt. A, 11, pp. 111âÂÂ150
- Rigout (J.), 1981 - The Beetles of the World, volume 1, Batocerini I, Sciences Nat, Venette https://web.archive.org/web/20100806171131/http://www.insects.demon.co.uk/cm/cm-1-fr.html
- Rigout (J.), 1982 - The Beetles of the World, volume 2, Batocerini II, Sciences Nat, Venette https://web.archive.org/web/20100807063837/http://www.insects.demon.co.uk/cm/cm-2-fr.html
- Rigout (J.), 1987, Description d'un nouveau Batocera, Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles, 54, p. 26
- Rigout (J.), 1987, Description d'un Batocera nouveau, Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles, 55, p. 10
- Perger (R.) & Vitali (F.), 2012, Revision of the genus Megacriodes Pascoe, 1866, a new synonym of Batocera Laporte de Castelnau, 1840 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae), Les Cahiers Magellanes (NS), 7, pp. 1âÂÂ17, 31 figs.
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