Aromia moschata

TaxID: 1265417

Basic Information

Aromia moschata

Musk Beetle

The musk beetle (Aromia moschata) is a Eurasian species of longhorn beetle belonging to the subfamily Cerambycinae, tribe Callichromatini. Its name comes from the delicate musky smell it emits when menaced. The beetle has a shell with an iridescence tone that changes with the angle of view. It has a hard shell around the thorax with hard sharp spines.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Arthropoda

Insecta

Coleoptera

Cerambycidae

Aromia

moschata

nan

Photos (0 photos)

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Morphological Features

Head and thorax black, abdomen black-brown, antennae, elytra and legs dark brown. Head with distinct temples, strongly angulated, parallel-sided. Prothorax about 1.2 times shorter than basal width, strongly sinuate anteriorly, campanuliform; the largest middle width distinctly narrower than at base. Pronotum convex with distinct longitudinal depression along middle and here with elongated glabrous shining line; covered with short, pale, semierect, strong setae with several longer erect setae near scutellum. Scutellum triangular, about as wide as long, with scattered short setae. Elytra covered with short brownish erect and semierect setae. Abdomen with moderately dense long erect and partly recumbent setae.

Source: GBIF Life Stage: Adult Source Type: Scholarly article
Citation:

New species of genus Cortodera Mulsant, 1863 from East Kazakhstan and two new subspecies of Aromia moschata (Linnaeus, 1758) from Central Asia (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). Caucasian Entomological Bulletin

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (1 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
United States of America Quarantine pests —

Distribution (53 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
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Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Albania Present —
Algeria Present —
Andorra Present —
Armenia Present —
Austria Present —
Belgium Present —
Bulgaria Present —
Bosnia and Herzegovina Present —
Belarus Present —
Switzerland Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCA_029963805.1 Contig 687 1105 1105 -

Transcriptomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
ERR15140907 - - NOT COLLECTED 72048904 -

DNA Barcodes (35 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
XYLIN003-12 BOLD:AAM0486 COI-5P 618 Italy 2011-07-29 42.748173, 11.866286
TDAOE6293-25 BOLD:AAM0486 COI-5P 658 Austria 2024-06-27 48.27682, 15.69631
TCBP048-19 BOLD:AAM0486 COI-5P 658 Turkiye 2019-07-06 40.796944, 30.438889
GRAEL1223-22 BOLD:AAM0486 COI-5P 653 Switzerland - 47.451, 8.575
GCOL608-16 BOLD:AAM0486 COI-5P 658 Germany 2012-07-18 50.7726, 7.0953
GCOL4541-16 BOLD:AAM0486 COI-5P 658 Germany - 53.2512, 14.3615
GCOL3553-16 BOLD:AAM0486 COI-5P 658 Germany 2012-07-19 51.3329, 11.1285
GBMNB25573-20 BOLD:AAM0486 COI-5P 658 - - -
GBMIX2654-15 BOLD:AAM0486 COI-5P 658 Germany 2015-07-18 48.79, 11.49789
GBCOU680-13 BOLD:AAM0486 COI-5P 658 Germany 2013-07-04 48.381, 10.701
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