''Menesia bipunctata'' is a species of

beetle Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...

in the family

Cerambycidae The longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae), also known as long-horned or longicorns, are a large family of beetles, with over 35,000 species described. Most species are characterized by extremely long antennae, which are often as long as or longer than ...

. It was described by Zoubkov in 1829, originally under the genus ''

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''. It has a wide distribution in

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and

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. It measures between . It feeds on ''

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'' and ''

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Varietas

* ''Menesia bipunctata var. quadripustulata'' Mulsant, 1863 * ''Menesia bipunctata var. perrisi'' Mulsant, 1856

References

Menesia Beetles described in 1829 {{Saperdini-stub