Subfamilia: LEPTURINAE / Tribus: RHAMNUSIINI
[Photo © Lech Kruszelnicki]
Akimerus schaefferi, a conspicuous, unmistakable and rare European species of old oak forests, has been described from Tyrol as Leptura Schæfferi by Johann Nepomuk Laicharting in 1784 [▽]. The occurrence of this species is associated with the presence of very old oaks, or with coppice oak forests. It does not occur in culturally planted oak forests. A. schaefferi larvae develop deep underground in dead or dying (sometimes quite fresh) oak roots. Life cycle 3 years. Pupation in pupal cells hidden among roots in soil during spring. The adults, active from June to August, fly in warm weather around the oak crowns/treetops. They also sit on the leaves of host trees, often on the plants below them, less often on flowers (eg. Apiaceae) [❖][✧].
Body length: ♂♂ 15.0 - 22.0 mm / ♀♀ 20.0 - 26.5 mm Life cycle: 3 years Adults in: June - July Host plant: oaks (Quercus spp.) Distribution: Central and South Europe
The depicted beetles were collected/photographed in: (DR) - Ladná environs (Břeclav district, South Moravia, Czechia) in June 2014 and 2016; (NR) - Hungary.
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Laicharting J.N.:
Verzeichniss und Beschreibung der Tyrolen-Insecten.
Zürich. Johann Caspar Füessly, 2 (1): v-xiv + 1- 176, 1784. [download]
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Sláma M.E.F.:
Tesaříkovití – Cerambycidae České republiky a Slovenské republiky.
[ Cerambycidae of the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic. ]
Milan Sláma private printing, Krhanice, 383pp [pages 196-198], 1998 [ISBN: 80-238-2627-1]. [download[✧]
Danilevsky M.L.:
Longicorn beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycoidea) of Russia and adjacent countries. Part 1.
[ Жуки-усачи (Coleoptera, Cerambycoidea) России и соседних стран. Часть 1. ]
Moscow: Higher School Consulting 1: 522pp [pages 91-92], 2014. [download
Akimerus schaefferi ♀ [Photo © Daniel Rydzi]
Akimerus schaefferi ♂ [Photo © Daniel Rydzi]
Akimerus schaefferi ♂ [Photo © Nikola Rahmé]
| Subfamilia | Lepturinae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Rhamnusiini Sama, 2009 |
| Genus | Akimerus Audinet-Serville, 1836 |
| Species | Akimerus schaefferi (Laicharting, 1784) |