Cacia (beetle)

Genus of beetles

Cacia
Cacia parumpunctata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Cerambycidae
Tribe: Mesosini
Genus: Cacia
Newman, 1842

Cacia is a genus of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae.[1]

Description

Cacia species typically are black with some kind of pale yellow patterns over the body and legs, usually thick spots or detailed speckles. Like other species in the subfamily Lamiinae, they have fairly pale markings, and their colors are not as bright yellow as some species within the family Cerambycidae, or longhorns. Cacia beetle antennae are slightly longer than the length of their bodies, compared to some Lamiinae with incredibly long antennae.

Species

Cacia containing the following species:

subgenus Acanthocacia

  • Cacia bispinosa Aurivillius, 1911
  • Cacia collarti Breuning, 1960
  • Cacia compta Pascoe, 1865
  • Cacia flavoguttata Breuning, 1968
  • Cacia flavovariegata Breuning, 1974
  • Cacia guttata (Aurivillius, 1927)
  • Cacia melanopsis Pascoe, 1866
  • Cacia multiguttata Breuning, 1968
  • Cacia picticornis Pascoe, 1858
  • Cacia salomonum Aurivillius, 1921
  • Cacia singaporensis Breuning, 1974

subgenus Cacia

  • Cacia anancyloides Breuning, 1958
  • Cacia bioculata Heller, 1923
  • Cacia celebensis Breuning, 1938
  • Cacia confusa Pascoe, 1857
  • Cacia curta Breuning, 1935
  • Cacia estrellae Hüdepohl, 1989
  • Cacia evittata Breuning, 1924
  • Cacia flavobasalis Breuning, 1938
  • Cacia flavomaculipennis Breuning, 1974
  • Cacia fruhstorferi Breuning, 1969
  • Cacia griseovittata Breuning, 1974
  • Cacia grossepunctata Breuning, 1980
  • Cacia hebridarum Breuning, 1970
  • Cacia herbacea Pascoe, 1866
  • Cacia inculta Pascoe, 1857
  • Cacia intermedia Heller, 1923
  • Cacia intricata Pascoe, 1865
  • Cacia kaszabi Breuning, 1954
  • Cacia kinabaluensis Breuning, 1982
  • Cacia niasica Breuning, 1974
  • Cacia palawanica Breuning, 1936
  • Cacia parintricata Breuning, 1982
  • Cacia proteus Heller, 1915
  • Cacia sarawakensis Breuning, 1938
  • Cacia spinigera Newman, 1842
  • Cacia strellae Hüdepohl, 1989
  • Cacia triangularis Breuning, 1980
  • Cacia trimaculata Breuning, 1947

subgenus Coreothrophora

subgenus Ipocregyes

subgenus Pericacia

subgenus Pseudocacia

subgenus Spinocacia

References

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  1. ^ Biolib.cz - Cacia. Retrieved on 8 September 2014.
Taxon identifiers
Cacia