Huhu beetle
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Prionoplus reticularis White
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Cerambycidae
Size range
- Large beetle, 40–5 0mm long
Distribution
- A New Zealand native
Life History
- Adult does not eat and lives 2 weeks only
- Larvae feed in dead rotting wood
- Pupate in a cavity excavated in wood