Coptocercus crucigerus

{{Short description|Species of beetle}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2022}}

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| image = Coptocercus crucigerus 169317105.jpg

| taxon = Coptocercus crucigerus

| authority = (Hope, 1842)

| synonyms = Stenochorus cruciger {{small|Hope, 1842}}

Phoracantha polita {{small|Pascoe, 1863}}

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Coptocercus crucigerus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae (the long-horned beetles),{{Cite web |title=IRMNG - Coptocercus crucigerus (Hope, 1842) |url=https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=10918271 |access-date=2022-03-07 |website=www.irmng.org}} first described by Frederick William Hope in 1842 as Stenochorus cruciger,{{cite journal|author=Hope, F.W.|author-link=Frederick William Hope |date=1842|title= Observations on the Coleoptera of Port Essington, in Australia|journal= Annals and Magazine of Natural History |volume=1 |issue= 9|pages= 423–430 [428]|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2312891}} from a specimen collected in Port Essington (Darwin).{{Cite web |title=Australian Faunal Directory" Coptocercus cruciger |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Coptocercus_cruciger |access-date=2022-03-07 |website=biodiversity.org.au |language=en}} In 1929, Herbert James Carter assigned the species to the genus Coptocercus, and also synonymised it with Phoracantha polita Pascoe, 1863.{{cite journal|author=Carter, H. J.|author-link=Herbert James Carter |date=1929|title= Revision of the Australian Phoracanthini (Cerambycidae), with notes and descriptions of new species of this group and allied genera|journal= Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales |volume=54|pages= 118–36|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35068275}}{{Cite Q|Q99974581}}