Batocera

Very large, darkly coloured dorsally spotty, elongate-oval beetles with long legs and antennae extending well beyond elytral apices. Frontoclypeus rectangular. Eyes large, finely facetted, narrowly separated at frons; eye lobes posteriorly connected by 8 or more rows of facets. Antennal tubercles distant. Antennal scape with incomplete circular apical carina, distinctly shorter than antennomere 3, extending to one fourth of pronotum. Pronotum transverse, lateral margin with strong median pointed tubercle; pronotal disc without defined tubercles; prosternal process very narrow, arched; procoxal cavity with lateral extension and exposed protrochantin, narrowly open posteriorly. Mesoventrite flat anteriorly; mesocoxal cavities open to mesepimeron; mesocoxae narrowly separated. Elytra without apparent tubercles. Legs long; protibia curved inwards in male, with 2 terminal spurs; mesotibia with sulcate antennal cleaner; tarsi 5-segmented; pretarsal claws simple, broadly divergent. Abdominal ventrite 2 in male without semicircular sex patches.

Batocera is widespread throughout the Old World tropics and subtropics in the Afrotropical, Oriental and Australian Regions. There are probably three widely distributed Indo-Pacific species of Batocera in northern and eastern Australia, with B. boisduvali (Great Fig Tree Borer) commonly occurring in southern Queensland and northern New South Wales.