Long-horned beetle
Ergates faber (Linné, 1761)
Status not recordedbeetles
The long-horned beetle (Ergates faber) is a species in the family Cerambycidae, order Coleoptera. Recorded adults reach 6 cm in length. Source checklists list it for 34 countries, including Albania, Algeria and Austria.
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Quick facts about the long-horned beetle
- Weight
- Not recorded
- Length
- 2.3 cm – 6 cmsrc for Length
- Lifespan
- Not recorded
- Diet
- Herbivoresrc for Diet
- Main food
- Not recorded
- Habitat
- forestsrc for Habitat
- Young per litter or clutch
- Not recorded
- Active
- Day and night (cathemeral)src for Active
- Conservation status
- Not recorded
- Countries on record
- 34 countriessrc for Countries on record
How big is the long-horned beetle?
Where does the long-horned beetle live?
Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.
The long-horned beetle is listed for 34 countries.
- Listed
- Not listed
The same countries as a list
- Albania
- Algeria
- Austria
- Bosnia & Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- China
- Croatia
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Italy
- Lithuania
- Morocco
- Myanmar (Burma)
- Nepal
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Portugal
- Russia
- Sierra Leone
- Slovakia
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syria
- Taiwan
- Türkiye
- Ukraine
Why a country list is not a range map
Listed by: TITAN (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.
Where has it been introduced?
The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the long-horned beetle as introduced in 1 country.
Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).
Is the long-horned beetle endangered?
No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.
How is the long-horned beetle classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumArthropoda
- classInsecta
- orderColeoptera
- familyCerambycidae
- genusErgates
- SpeciesErgates faber (Linné, 1761)
Synonyms Anomophysis crenata, Armiger ferox, Caratambyx faber, Cerambyx faber, Cerambyx faber, Cerambyx portitor, Ergates alkani, Ergates faber, Ergates faber alkani, Ergates faber faber, Ergates grandiceps, Prionius serrarius, Prionus bulzanensis, Prionus crenatus, Prionus obscurus, Prionus serrarius
Other names and names in other languages (20)
- Banyarriquer del piCatalan
- tesařík zavalitýCzech
- ZimmerbockGerman
- MulmbockGerman
- Ergate forgeronFrench
- ÁcscincérHungarian
- Ūsuotis dailidėLithuanian
- Ūsenis dailidėLithuanian
- MolmboktorDutch
- Grote timmerbokDutch
- Grote timmerboktorDutch
- Grote timmermanDutch
- NaaldreuzenboktorDutch
- Borodziej próchnikPolish
- CarpinteiroPortuguese
- Усач-плотникRussian
- fuzáč zavalitýSlovak
- smedbockSwedish
- jättevedbockSwedish
- Пиляр смолянийUkrainian
Relatives of the long-horned beetle
Other species in the same family Cerambycidae.
Titan beetle
Titanus giganteus
Cerambyx longicorn
Cerambyx cerdo
Hylotrupes
Hylotrupes bajulus
Musk beetle
Aromia moschata
Rosalia longicorn
Rosalia alpina
Timberman
Acanthocinus aedilis
CompareLong-horned beetle vs Titan beetleLong-horned beetle vs Cerambyx longicornLong-horned beetle vs HylotrupesLong-horned beetle vs Musk beetle
Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
How big is the long-horned beetle?
An adult long-horned beetle measures 2.3 cm – 6 cm long, according to values recorded on Wikidata.
Where does the long-horned beetle live?
Catalogue of Life checklists list the long-horned beetle for 34 countries, including Albania, Algeria, Austria, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Bulgaria. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.
Is the long-horned beetle an invasive species?
The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the long-horned beetle as introduced in 1 country: Denmark, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.
What kind of animal is the long-horned beetle?
The long-horned beetle (Ergates faber) belongs to the family Cerambycidae in the order Coleoptera.
Sources and how to cite this page
Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.
- Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf - Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (GRIIS) · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-11-13
Pagad, S., Genovesi, P., Carnevali, L., Schigel, D. & McGeoch, M.A. (2018) Introducing the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species. Scientific Data 5: 170202. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.202. Country checklists published through GBIF by the IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group. - TraitCH: a multi-taxa functional trait dataset for Switzerland and Europe · CC BY 4.0 · 2.0
Chauvier, Y., Adde, A., Bergamini, A. et al. (2025) TraitCH: a multi-taxa functional trait dataset for Switzerland and Europe. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15063844
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