Apocaulus

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Etymology

From apo- (“lacking, without; away, apart”, from Ancient Greek ἀπο- (apo-) or ἀπό (apó)) +‎ Ancient Greek καυλός (kaulós, “stem, stalk; shaft”). A deliberate metathesis of the earlier Aulacopus, another genus of longhorn beetles, from which this genus was separated.

Coined by entomologist René Michel Quentin and French entomologist and herpetologist André Villiers in 1977.

Proper noun

Apocaulus m

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Cerambycidae – certain longhorn beetles.

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