Larvae are found under moist bark of dead trees, including
celerytop logs.[3][4] Adults may be found around foliage and light.[3]
Appearance
Binburrum articuno is less than a foot long with two half-
ellipse shaped
elytras or forewings that have hundreds of black spots all over them. It has two
transparent hind wings. As do all
insects, it also has six legs,[5] these are yellow. It has two brown
anntennae made up of segments. It has two blue
compound eyes on the sides of the face.
Other species in Binburrum articuno's genus
Binburrum angusticolis which was named by Pollock in 1995
Binburrum bifoveicollis which was named by Lea in 1917
Binburrum convavifrons which was named by Pollock in 1995
Binburrum ephippiatum which was named by Wilson in 1926
Binburrum moltres which was named by Hsiao and Pollock in 2020
Binburrum ruficollis which was named by Champion in 1895
Binburrum zapdos which was named by Hsiao and Pollock in 2020.[6]
Yun Hsiao, an entomology
PhD student, named Binburrum articuno along with Darren Pollock.[7] He has named a
weevil of the genus Demyrsus after the character Digmon from the
Digimon anime because the weevil has the
ability to pierce the trunk of a
cycad and Digmon has the ability to control the Earth.[11] He is responsible for nine
taxonomytitles, besides Binburrum articuno, Binburrum zapdos, and Binburrum moltres, and the
taxonomytitles are listed below.
^Hsiao, Yun (1 June 2015). "A new species of the genus Synchroa from Taiwan, with a key to the world fauna (Coleoptera: Synchroidae)". Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae. 55 (1): 243–248.
doi:
10.5281/zenodo.5302376.