long-horned beetle

...The kanji for the beetle is "Tengyu", but the characters for "kamikirimushi" and "kamikirimushi" are also used. The English name is "longicorn beetle", "longicornia", or "long-horned beetle". About 30,000 species have been recorded around the world, and about 750 species in Japan, but there are many researchers and enthusiasts, and new species are being discovered one after another even today.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "long-horned beetle" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…漢字では天牛と書くが，髪切虫や紙切虫の字を用いることがある。英名はlongicorn beetle,longicornia,long‐horned beetle。世界から約3万種，日本から約750種が記録されているが，研究者や同好者が多く，今日でも新種が次々と発見されている。…

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