• regularly updated photo-encyclopedia containing information about more than 720 West Palaearctic Cerambycidae taxa
• the web site, completely recoded and reshaped during spring 2016, is on-line continuously from 1997 on the same URL
• presented information and photos: own sources and collaborating entomologists / photographers
• details on biology, taxonomy and habitats of selected species
• information on host plants of selected species
• direct access to selected literature sources (internal pdf library)

News

New taxa added Dorcadion (Cribridorcadion) olympicum flavosuturale Krätschmer, 1987  [22.XI.2017] Dorcadion (Maculatodorcadion) quadrimaculatum Küster, 1848  [22.XI.2017] Dorcadion (Cribridorcadion) piochardi Kraatz, 1873  [22.XI.2017] Xylotrechus raghidae Sama et Rapuzzi, 2000  [21.X.2017] Dorcadion (Cribridorcadion) smyrnense (Linnaeus, 1757)  [16.XI.2017] Dorcadion (Cribridorcadion) bistriatum Pic, 1898  [16.XI.2017] Dorcadion (Dorcadion) abakumovi sarkandicum Danilevsky, 2004  [8.XI.2017] Dorcadion (Cribridorcadion) bangi Heyden, 1894  [8.XI.2017] Dorcadion (Cribridorcadion) shirvanicum shirvanicum Bogatchev, 1934  [8.XI.2017] Dorcadion (Acutodorcadion) alexandris Pic, 1900  [23.X.2017] Callidium cedri Peyerimhoff, 1917  [20.X.2017] New pictures and texts added Purpuricenus kaehleri menetriesi Motschulsky, 1845  [5.IV.2018] Enoploderes (Enoploderes) sanguineus Faldermann, 1837  [5.IV.2018] Crotchiella brachyptera Israelson, 1985  [5.IV.2018]

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