Brown Borer Acalolepta cervina (Hope) [Coleoptera: Cerambycidae] Morphology The adult beetle is 15 22 mm long and greyish brown in colour, with antennae twice as long as male, shorter in the female but still much longer than the body, The larva can be up to 48 mm long and around 9 mm wide the prothorax. The egg is 3.25 mm long and 0.75 mm wide (Duffy, 1968). Pest status and distribution The species has been known for many years as an important pest of teak and other forest trees in Pakistan, India, Myanmar and Thailand (Browne, 1968), but in recent years it has been recognized as an important pest of coffee in southern China and Thailand (Lan and Wintgens, 2004). There are no records of damage to coffee from India s range also extends to Sikkim, Nepal. Japan and Korea,