Scalenus

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Scalenus
Scalenus fasciatipennis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Cerambycidae
Tribe: Callichromatini
Genus: Scalenus
Gistel, 1848
Synonyms

Colobus Audinet-Serville, 1833 (Unav.)
Coloborhombus Thomson, 1864
Nothopeus Pascoe, 1864

Scalenus is an Old World genus of round-necked longhorn beetles of the subfamily Cerambycinae.

In his 1889 book Darwinism, Alfred Russel Wallace discusses Batesian mimicry with a plate of a Scalenus species (S. fasciatipennis) that closely mimics a wasp.[1]

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