''Saperda carcharias'' is a species of

longhorn beetle 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 ...

Ecology

''Saperda carcharias'' feeds almost exclusively on poplar trees, targeting the

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zone.

Taxonomy

''Saperda carcharias'' was first described in 1758, when

Carl Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...

included it in the

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of his ', under the name ''Cerambyx carcharias''. It was later chosen as the

type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen ...

of a new genus, ''

Saperda ''Saperda'' is a genus of flat-faced longhorn beetles belonging to the family Cerambycidae, subfamily Lamiinae. The genus was erected by Johan Christian Fabricius Johan Christian Fabricius (7 January 1745 – 3 March 1808) was a Danish zoolo ...

''.

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carcharias ''Carcharias'' is a genus of sand tiger sharks belonging to the family Odontaspididae. Once bearing many prehistoric species, all have gone extinct with the exception of the critically endangered sand tiger shark. Description ''Carcharias'' ar ...

Beetles of Europe Beetles of Asia Beetles described in 1758 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Saperdini-stub