Cantharocnemis (Cantharocnemis) spondyloides Audinet-Serville, 1832
[= Hoploscelis lucanoides Audinet-Serville, 1832]
[= Cantharocnemis variolosus Fairmaire, 1882]
[= Cantharocnemis latibula Fairmaire, 1882]
[= Cantharocnemus obockianus Fairmaire, 1890]
[= Cantharocnemis modestus Fairmaire, 1897]
[= Cantharocnemis (Cantharocnemis) Gahani Lameere, 1902]
[= Cantharocnemis Grandidieri Lameere, 1912]
[= Cantharocnemis (Cantharofoedus) migsi Gilmour, 1956]

Subfamilia: PRIONINAE  /  Tribus: CANTHAROCNEMINI

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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 male beetles were collected in Wādī an Nu‘mān (20 km W of At Taif/ اَلطَّائِفُ‎;N21°16′2″ E40°13′15″; 820 m a.s.l, Mecca disctrict, Mecca province, Saudi Arabia) in October 25–27, 2022 and 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 friends Petr Kabátek and 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

Rapuzzi P. and al Dhafer H.:
The Cerambycidae fauna of Saudi Arabia (Coleoptera).
Revue suisse de Zoologie 131 (1): 177-217, 2024. [download ]

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Subfamilia	Prioninae Latreille, 1802
Tribus	Cantharocnemini Thomson, 1861
Genus	Cantharocnemis Audinet-Serville, 1832
Subgenus	Cantharocnemis Audinet-Serville, 1832
Species	Cantharocnemis (Cantharocnemis) spondyloides Audinet-Serville, 1832