Wasp-like Longicorn Beetle - Hesthesis variegata
FAMILY CERAMBYCIDAE
This page contains information and pictures about Wasp-like Longicorn Beetles that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 20mm
- This Longicorn Beetle mimics a wasp to gain protection. Besides its colours and body shape, the beetle moves like a wasp.
- To mimic a wasp, it has the very short elytra, or wing cover. There are the orange-yellow bands on its abdomen. On its 1st and 2nd abdomen segment there are the yellow edges to make it has the narrow- waisted look.
- When we came close to the beetle, the beetle put up different wasp-like postures and movement. After a few try and failed to scare us, the beetle flied away.
- We took those pictures on Oct 2004 in Yugarapul Park.
- On Dec 2005 we found the an insect resting on a She-oak tree Casuarinaceae. We though it may be a Wasp-like Longicorn Beetle but feared it could be a wasp. We came close very carefully and found out it was a beetle. We took only one photo before it flied away.
