ColeopteraColeoptera Index Amarygmus sp Anoplognathus sp Aphanestes gymnopleura Aporocera speciosa Atractocerus crassicornis Blackburnium cavicolle Buprestidae Carphurus Cerambycidae Chalcopteroides (Chalcopterus Beetle) Christmas Beetles Chrysomelidae (Leaf Beetles) Coleoptera (Beetles) Curculionidae Dicranolaius cinctus Dung Beetle Eretes australis Helea scaphiformis Hydrophilus Ladybirds (Beetles) Lepidiota Lucanidae Lycidae Malachiinae Mordellidae (Pintail Beetles) Neospades sp Omorgus Paropsine Beetle Paropsisterna sp Phorticosomus sp Protaetia fusca Pterohelaeus sp Rhinotia haemoptera Rhipiceridae Scarabaeidae Tenebrionidae Xylophilostenus octophyllus
The species Atractocerus crassicornis, is a species in the genus Atractocerus known as the Ship-Timber Beetles (in the family Lymexylidae). There are currently 26 listed species in the genus Atractocerus (as listed in Wikipedia – 17 January 2025).
The genus Atractocerus are wood-boring beetles, whose larvae who spend their time tunnelling through wood, until they pupate. The larvae are long and cylindrical with a globular head and very short antenna. They live on Ambrosia fungus genus Ascoidea (that they take it into hard wood of weakened or dead trees).



- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Coleoptera
- Suborder: Polyphaga
- Superfamily: Lymexyloidea
- Family: Lymexylidae
- Subfamily: Atractocerinae
- Genus: Atractocerus
- Species: Atractocerus crassicornis
Footnote & References
- Photographs: Atractocerus crassicornis, Perth & South West WA © Christopher Peacock
- Many thanks to Thomas Burbidge for ID, member of Insects of Perth & South West Western Australia, https://www.facebook.com/groups/925620167561301/
- Atractocerus crassicornis Clark, 1931, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/Atractocerus crassicornis
- Ship-timber Beetle, Real Monstrosities, http://www.realmonstrosities.com/2013/08/ship-timber-beetle.html
ColeopteraColeoptera Index Amarygmus sp Anoplognathus sp Aphanestes gymnopleura Aporocera speciosa Atractocerus crassicornis Blackburnium cavicolle Buprestidae Carphurus Cerambycidae Chalcopteroides (Chalcopterus Beetle) Christmas Beetles Chrysomelidae (Leaf Beetles) Coleoptera (Beetles) Curculionidae Dicranolaius cinctus Dung Beetle Eretes australis Helea scaphiformis Hydrophilus Ladybirds (Beetles) Lepidiota Lucanidae Lycidae Malachiinae Mordellidae (Pintail Beetles) Neospades sp Omorgus Paropsine Beetle Paropsisterna sp Phorticosomus sp Protaetia fusca Pterohelaeus sp Rhinotia haemoptera Rhipiceridae Scarabaeidae Tenebrionidae Xylophilostenus octophyllus
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