Familia	Cerambycidae (Latreille, 1802)
Subfamilia	Prioninae (Latreille, 1802)
Tribus	Macrotomini (Thomson, 1860)
Genus	Platygnathus (Audinet-Serville, 1832)
Subgenus
Species	octangularis (Olivier, 1795)
Synonyms	parallelus (Audinet-Serville, 1832)
other names	Prionus octangularis (Olivier, 1795) Megopis Aegosoma parallela (Lameere, 1909) Megopis parallela (Vinson, 1967)
Lifezones:	Afrotropic
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Distribution:	Mauritius, Reunion, Madagascar
Occurrence:	I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII