Monochamus leuconotus

Monochamus leuconotus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Cerambycidae
Genus:	Monochamus
Species:	M. leuconotus
Binomial name
	Monochamus leuconotus; (Pascoe, 1869)
Synonyms
	Anthores leuconotus Pascoe, 1869 ; Herpetophygas fasciatus (Fåhraeus) Fåhraeus, 1872 ; Monohammus leucopterus Heyne-Tasch., 1906 ; Phygas fasciatus Fåhraeus, 1872 ;

Monochamus leuconotus (African white stem borer of coffee) is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe in 1869, originally under the genus Anthores. It is known from Tanzania, Cameroon, Malawi, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, Angola, and Zimbabwe. It feeds on Coffea arabica.^[1]

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