''Spalacopsis filum'' 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 first described by

Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug (5 May 1775, in Berlin – 3 February 1856, in Berlin), was a German entomologist. He described the butterflies and some other insects of Egypt, Upper Egypt and Arabia in Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg and Wilhelm Fr ...

in 1829.Bezark, Larry G
''A Photographic Catalog of the Cerambycidae of the World''
Retrieved 22 May 2012.

References

Spalacopsis Beetles described in 1829 {{Agapanthiini-stub