Pachylocerus corallinus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It is found in southwestern India. It was first described and given its binomial name by Frederick William Hope who examined a specimen from the cabinet of Captain Thomas Smee of the Indian Navy who had obtained it from a prickly pear in the vicinity of "Omlecope Dawar" (possibly "Ontikoppa" near Dharwad).[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Cerambycidae |
| Genus: | Pachylocerus |
| Species: | P. corallinus
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| Pachylocerus corallinus Hope, 1834
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Specimens have been recorded from as far north as Bombay, south through Matheran, Goa, to Mangalore.[2] In this genus, the eyes are divided. The antennae are short and do not reach past the middle of the elytra in the male and are even shorter in the female.[3]
References
edit- ^ Hope, F.W. (1834). "Descriptions of some hitherto uncharacterized exotic Coleoptera, chiefly from New Holland". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1: 11–20. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1837.tb03170.x.
- ^ Sen, A.; Rangnekar, S.; Rangnekar, P.; Ghate, H.V. (2005). "Record of Priotyrannus mordax (White) and Pachylocerus corallinus Hope (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), from Goa". Zoos' Print Journal. 20 (5): 1869–1870. doi:10.11609/JoTT.ZPJ.1188.1869-70.
- ^ Gahan, C.J. (1906). Fauna of British India. Coleoptera-Vol. I. (Cerambycidae). London: Taylor and Francis. p. 225.