About Tragidion coquus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Tragidion coquus is a species of longhorn beetle that belongs to the family Cerambycidae. This species is found in North America. Individual members of this species have a black head and black pronotum. The amount of orange coloring on their elytra is highly variable, ranging from elytra that are almost completely orange to elytra that are entirely black. Tragidion coquus was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. The specific epithet of this species is sometimes misspelled as "coquum"; however, since it is a noun, the spelling "coquus" must be retained under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN).
