''Apriona buruensis'' is a species of

beetle Beetles are insects that form the Taxonomic rank, order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Holometabola. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 40 ...

in the family

Cerambycidae The longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae), also known as long-horned or longicorns (whose larvae are often referred to as roundheaded borers), are a large family of beetles, with over 35,000 species described. Most species are characterized by anten ...

. It was described by

Coenraad Ritsema Coenraad Ritsema, also Cornelius Conrad Ritsema (13 April 1846, Haarlem – 9 January 1929, Wageningen) was a Dutch entomologist. Ritsema was a Curator at RMNH Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie (National Museum of Natural History) in Leiden fro ...

in 1898. It is known from the

Moluccas The Maluku Islands ( ; , ) or the Moluccas ( ; ) are an archipelago in the eastern part of Indonesia. Tectonically they are located on the Halmahera Plate within the Molucca Sea Collision Zone. Geographically they are located in West Melanesi ...

and

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...

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References

Batocerini Beetles described in 1898 {{Batocerini-stub