List of beetles of Nepal (Cerambycidae) explained

The following is a list of Cerambycidae of Nepal. Four-hundred and sixty eight species are listed.

This list is primarily based on Andreas Weigel's 2006 list^[1] and Maxim Lazarev's 2019 list^[2] with some recent additions and a modernized classification.

Subfamily Disteniinae

• Dynamostes audax
• Cyrtonops punctipennis
• Aegosoma ornaticolle

Subfamily Prioninae

• Bandar pascoei
• Anomophysis elliotti
• Anomophysis inscripta
• Anomophysis plagiata
• Anomophysis spinosa
• Cantharocnemis downesii
• Rhaphipodus gahani
• Megopis bowringi
• Megopis buckleyi
• Megopis (Spinimegopis) nepalensis
• Megopis sulcipennis
• Megopis (Spinimegopis) tibialis
• Casiphia himalayaensis
• Dorysthenes buqueti
• Dorysthenes huegelii
• Dorysthenes indicus
• Dorysthenes sternalis
• Dorysthenes zivetta
• Prionus corpulentus
• Sarmydus antennatus
• Sarmydus subcoriaceus
• Necydalis nepalensis
• Arhopalus tibetanus
• Tetropium oreinum
• Atimia juniperi
• Caraphia granulifera
• Formosotoxotus nobuoi
• Pachyta perlata
• Anastrangalia lavinia
• Anastrangalia rubriola
• Gahanaspia miniacea
• Idiostrangalia quadrisignata
• Leptura lavinia
• Nanostrangalia torui
• Paranaspia frainii
• Parastrangalis emotoi
• Strangalia bilineaticollis
• Palaeoxylosteus kucerai

Subfamily Cerambycinae

• Comusia thailandica
• Neomarius thomasi
• Noserius indicus
• Oemospila maculipennis
• Oplatocera oberthuri
• Plocaederus ruficornis
• Tetraommatus fragilis
• Xystrocera globosa
• Aeolesthes indicola
• Derolus volvulus
• Dialeges pauper
• Diorthus pellitulus
• Dymasius subvestitus
• Hoplocerambyx spinicornis
• Margites modicus
• Massicus dierli
• Neocerambyx paris
• Pachydissus parvicollis
• Rhytidodera bowringi
• Rhytidodera consona
• Rhytidodera simluans
• Xoanodera regularis
• Nortia fuscata
• Stromatium barbatum

• Zoodes basalis
• Nyphasia apicalis
• Nyphasia fuscipennis
• Nyphasia pascoei
• Ceresium leucosticticum
• Ceresium lucifugum
• Ceresium propinquum

• Stenodryas apicalis
• Stenodryas nigromaculatus
• Obrium aegrotum
• Obrium posticum
• Stenhomalus fenestratus
• Stenhomalus versicolor
• Prothema aurata
• Epania abdominalis
• Epania mundali
• Epania picipes
• Glaphyra darjeelingensis
• Glaphyra molorchoides
• Glaphyra shimai
• Berndgerdia balteata
• Euchlanis argentifer
• Euchlanis robustulus
• Euchlanis testacea
• Merionoeda indica
• Merionoeda nigriceps
• Merionoeda phoebe
• Anubis inermis
• Aphrodisium cantori
• Aphrodisium cribricolle
• Aphrodisium hardwickianum
• Pachyteria fasciata
• Thranius simplex
• Acrocyrtidus auricomus
• Rosalia formosa
• Rosalia hariola
• Rosalia lateritia
• Gerdberndia atricolor
• Gerdberndia ferrocyaneus
• Gerdberndia nubigena
• Semanotus nigroalbus
• Chlorophorus acrocarpi
• Chlorophorus annularis

• Chlorophorus annularoides
• Chlorophorus annulatus

• Chlorophorus anulifer
• Chlorophorus arciferus
• Chlorophorus assimilis
• Chlorophorus dureli
• Chlorophorus furcillatus
• Chlorophorus henriettae
• Chlorophorus insidiosus
• Chlorophorus nepalensis
• Chlorophorus quaduordecimmaculatus
• Chlorophorus reductus
• Demonax albicinctus
• Demonax ascendens
• Demonax balyi
• Demonax bicinctus
• Demonax buteae
• Demonax cf. breveluteobasalis (possibly Demonax breveluteobasalis)
• Demonax christinae
• Demonax dorotheae
• Demonax gertrudae
• Demonax gunjii
• Demonax himalayanus
• Demonax ingridae
• Demonax josefinae
• Demonax katarinae
• Demonax leucoscutellatus
• Demonax mariae
• Demonax narayani
• Demonax nigromaculatus
• Demonax rosae
• Demonax sabinae
• Demonax semiluctuosus
• Demonax testaceus
• Demonax trudae
• Hesperoclytus katarinae
• Ischnodora separanda
• Perissus fuliginosus
• Perissus magdalenae
• Perissus mutabilis
• Perissus quercus
• Rhaphuma afflata
• Rhaphuma anopla
• Rhaphuma aranea
• Rhaphuma bhaktai
• Rhaphuma brigittae
• Rhaphuma chatterjeei
• Rhaphuma fulgurata
• Rhaphuma hermina
• Rhaphuma horsfieldi
• Rhaphuma ilsae
• Rhaphuma joshi
• Rhaphuma moerens
• Rhaphuma nishidai
• Rhaphuma praeusta
• Rhaphuma quadrimaculata
• Rhaphuma querciphaga
• Rhaphuma sharmai
• Rhaphuma weigeli
• Xylotrechus arunensis
• Xylotrechus basifuliginosuss

• Xylotrechus buqueti
• Xylotrechus contortus
• Xylotrechus difformis
• Xylotrechus gestroi
• Xylotrechus incurvatus
• Xylotrechus javanicus
• Xylotrechus longithorax
• Xylotrechus smei
• Xylotrechus stebbingi
• Xylotrechus subcarinatus
• Xylotrechus subdepressus
• Anaglyptus abieticola
• Anaglyptus fasciatus
• Anaglyptus marmoratus
• Epipedocera affinis
• Epipedocera chakhata
• Epipedocera undulata
• Epipedocera zona
• Erythrus coccineus
• Erythrus suturellus
• Erythrus westwoodi
• Pyrestes pyrrhus
• Pyrestes rufipes nepalicus
• Pyrocalymma pyrochroides
• Artimpaza dehra
• Artimpaza obscura
• Artimpaza punctigera
• Cleomenes apicalis
• Cleomenes ornatus
• Dere grahami
• Dere khatrii
• Dere opacula
• Diplothorax fasciatus
• Nida championi
• Paramimistena gracilicornis
• Euryphagus lundii
• Purpuricenus optabilis

Subfamily Lamiinae

• Parathylactus dorsalis
• Thylactus sikkimensis
• Xylorhiza adusta
• Aconodes euphorbiae
• Aconodes latefasciatus
• Aconodes montanus
• Aconodes nepalensis
• Dolophrades mustanganus
• Morimopsis dalihodi
• Trichodorcadion gardneri
• Acalolepta aurata
• Acalolepta battonii
• Acalolepta breviscapa
• Acalolepta cervina
• Acalolepta elongata
• Acalolepta freudei
• Acalolepta haradai
• Acalolepta griseipennis
• Acalolepta longicollis
• Acalolepta nepalensis
• Acalolepta semidegenera
• Acalolepta sericans
• Acalolepta sikkimensis rufoantennata
• Acalolpeta affinis
• Annamanum sikkimense
• Aristobia horridula
• Aristobia testudo
• Blepephaeus nepalensis
• Blepephaeus ocellatus
• Blepephaeus succinctor
• Celosterna scabrator
• Combe brianus
• Cremnosterna carissima
• Epepeotes uncinatus
• Macrochenus guerinii
• Monochamus basifossulatus
• Monochamus bimaculatus
• Monochamus dubius
• Paraleprodera insidiosa
• Paraleprodera stephanus
• Parepepeotes guttatus
• Pharsalia subgemmata

• Pseudonemophas versteegii
• Xenicotela distincta
• Apriona germari

• Apriona parvigranula
• Apriona sublaevis
• Batocera horsfieldi
• Batocera numitor
• Batocera roylei
• Batocera rubus
• Batocera rufomaculata
• Aesopida malasiaca
• Agelasta bifasciana
• Agelasta tonkinea
• Anagelasta apicalis
• Cacia cretifera
• Coptops leucosticticus
• Coptops lichenea
• Falsomesosella bhutanensis
• Falsomesosella gardneri
• Falsomesosella rufovittata
• Mesocacia duplicaria
• Mesosa setulosa
• Mesosa affinis nepalica
• Mesosa gardneri
• Imantocera penicillata
• Imantocera vicina
• Palimna palimnoides
• Palimnodes ducalis
• Olenecamptus anogeissi
• Olencamptus bilobus indianus
• Olenecamptus multinotatus
• Olenecamptus cf. serratus (possibly Olenecamptus serratus)
• Apomecyna cretacea
• Apomecyna histrio
• Apomecyna leucosticta
• Apomecyna naevia
• Apomecyna saltator
• Atimura combreti
• Eunidia kumatai
• Eunidia lateralis
• Hyagnis pakistanus
• Neosybra ochreovittata
• Ropica honesta
• Ropica lineatithorax
• Ropica rosti
• Zorilispe harai
• Aulaconotus grammopterus
• Cleptometopus indistinctus
• Cleptometopus mniszechi
• Cleptometopus cf. olivaceus (possibly Cleptometopus olivaceus)
• Cleptometopus parolivaceus
• Eucomatocera vittata
• Hippocephala argentistriata
• Hyllisia lineata
• Phelipara affins
• Phelipara indica
• Pothyne indica
• Pothyne macrophthalma
• Pothyne sikkimensis
• Pothyne variegata
• Pseudocalamobius burmanensis
• Pseudocalamobius luteonotatus
• Pseudocalamobius obscuriscapus
• Pseudocalamobius rufescens
• Pseudocalamobius truncatus
• Tetraglenes hirticornis
• Xenolea asiatica
• Moechotypa asiatica
• Diastocera wallichii
• Ithocritus ruber
• Calothyrza margaritifera
• Desisa quadriplagiata
• Desisa subfasciata
• Egesina anterufipennis
• Egesina basirufa
• Egesina cleroides
• Egesina flavopicta
• Egesina generosa
• Marmylaris buckleyi
• Marmylaris truncatipennis
• Niphona fuscatrix
• Niphona obscura
• Niphona parallela
• Paramesosella stheniformis
• Paranaches simplex
• Pterolophia brahma
• Pterolophia brevegibbosa
• Pterolophia carinata
• Pterolophia dorsalis
• Pterolophia krishna
• Pterolophia lunigera
• Pterolophia nigrovirgulata
• Pterolophia obscurata
• Pterolophia oculata
• PPterolophia pedongensis
• Pterolophia persimilis
• Pterolophia phungi
• Pterolophia postfasciculata
• Pterolophia quadrifasciata
• Pterolophia quadratiplagiata
• Pterolophia shiva
• Pterolophia tibialis
• Pterolophia transverseplagiata
• Pterolophia zebrina
• Sthenias longeantennatus
• Sthenias pseudodorsalis
• Diboma bhutanensis
• Diboma sybroides
• Eupogoniopsis sepicola
• Falseunidia albosignata
• Miccolamia relucens
• Mimovitalisia wittmeri
• Mimozotale cylindrica
• Parasophronica cf. strandiella (possibly Parasophronica strandiella)
• Pareuseboides albomarmorata
• Pseudanaesthetis assamensis
• Rhodopina albomaculata
• Rhodopina albomarmorata
• Rhodopina alboplagiata
• Rhodopina manipurensis
• Sophronica apicalis
• Sophronica brunnea
• Sophronica paupercula
• Cristosydonia alterna
• Cristenes sp.
• Exocentrus alboguttatus
• Exocentrus alboseriatus
• Exocentrus alni
• Exocentrus carissae
• Exocentrus championi
• Exocentrus cudraniae
• Exocentrus dalbergiae
• Exocentrus explanatidens
• Exocentrus ficicola
• Exocentrus flemingiae
• Exocentrus grewiae
• Exocentrus kleebergi
• Exocentrus parcus
• Exocentrus procerulus
• Exocentrus pubescens
• Exocentrus ravillus
• Exocentrus specularis
• Exocentrus tenellus
• Exocentrus testaceus
• Exocentrus transversifrons
• Ostedes prope brunneovariegata
• Paraclodia cf. besucheti (possibly Paraclodia besucheti)
• Pararhopaloscelides sericeipennis jumlaensis
• Pararondibilis acrosa
• Pararondibilis eluta
• Pareoporis nigrosignata
• Pareryssamena fuscosignata
• Rondibilis bastiana
• Rondibilis bispinosa
• Rondibilis pedongensis
• Rondibilis plagiata
• Rondibilis simillima
• Rondibilis subundulata
• Sciades elongatus
• Trichemeopedus calosus
• Trichemeopedus holzschuhi
• Trichohoplorana mutica
• Glenea astathiformis
• Glenea cancellata
• Glenea capriciosa
• Glenea indiana
• Glenea momeitensis
• Glenea pulchra
• Glenea quatuordecimmaculata
• Glenea spilota

• Glenea t-notata
• Glenea vaga
• Glenea virens bastiana
• Linda rubescens
• Linda semiatra
• Linda testacea
• Nupserha annulata
• Nupserha annulata mustangensis
• Nupserha basipilosa
• Nupserha cauta
• Nupserha dubia
• Nupserha fricator
• Nupserha fuscoapicalis
• Nupserha lenita
• Nupserha nigriceps
• Nupserha pallidipennis
• Nupserha pallidipennis flavipennis
• Nupserha quadrioculata
• Nupserha rotundicollis
• Nupserha schmidi
• Nupserha schmidi arunensis
• Nupserha schmidi tambaensis
• Oberea atropunctata
• Oberea bootangensis
• Oberea consentanea
• Oberea ferruginea
• Oberea himalayana
• Oberea montivagans medioplagiata
• Oberea nigriventris
• Oberea posticata
• Oberea pseudoposticata
• Obereopsis annulicorni
• Obereopsis atrosternalis
• Obereopsis infranigra
• Obereopsis limbata
• Obereopsis longipes
• Obereopsis luteicornis
• Obereopsis modica
• Obereopsis nepalensis
• Obereopsis obscura nigroabdominalis
• Obereopsis sericeoides
• Obereopsis sikkimensis
• Obereopsis trinotaticollis
• Phytoecia cf. kashmirica (possibly Phytoecia kashmirica)
• Serixia sp.
• Stibara tetraspilota
• Astathes violaceipennis
• Bacchisa frontalis
• Lasiophrys latifrons
• Momisis monticola
• Plaxomicrus ellipticus
• Plaxomicrus latus
• Nyctimenius tristis

See also

• List of butterflies of Nepal
• Odonata of Nepal
• Zygaenidae of Nepal
• Wildlife of Nepal

Notes and References

1. Weigel. Andreas. 2006. Checklist and Bibliography of Longhorn Beetles from Nepal (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).. Biodiversität und Naturausstattung im Himalaya II. . 5. 495–510.
2. Lazarev. M.A.. Murzin. S.V.. 2019. Catalogue of Nepal Longhorn beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). Humanity space. International almanac . 8. 6. 746–868. 10.24412/FhLZhN51wfY.