[= Clytus plebeius (Fabricius, 1781)]
Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE / Tribus: CLYTINI
[Photo © Daniel Rydzi]
Chlorophorus figuratus, an Euro-Turanian xerophilic species widespread from Portugal to southern Urals and Kazakhstan, has been described from Carniola (Slovenia) as Cerambyx Figuratus by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1763 [❖]. Larval development in standing dying or dead deciduous trees, in branches or weaker trunks as well as in dead parts of living trees (in trunks with abraded bark and stumps of broken branches). Several generations can develop in the same wood at the same time. Life-cycle two years, pupation in wood in early spring. Adults, active from May to August, are diurnal and can be found on flowers or the host trees [✧][✮].
Body length: 8 - 13 mm Life cycle: 2 years Adults in: May - August Host plant: polyphagous in deciduous trees (Castanea, Quercus, Betula, Corylus, Carpinus, Ulmus, Rosa, Crataegus, Pyrus, Prunus, Robinia, Pistacia, Euonymus, Salix, Populus, Viburnum) Distribution: Central, West and South Europe, Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkey
The depicted beetles were collected in: (DR) - Lukov environs (Znojmo district, South Moravia, Czechia) on June 20, 20220; (ML: grey pubescence) - Sýkořice village environs (Křivoklátsko Protected Landscape Area, Rakovník district, Central Bohemia, Czechia) on May 12, 2022; (ML: yellow pubescence) - reared from larva found in dead oak (Quercus robur) branch in Roztoky village environs (N50°00′16″ E13°52′28″; 450 m a.s.l, Křivoklátsko Protected Landscape Area, Rakovník district, Central Bohemia, Czechia) in December 2022; (MH) - mountains 2 km W of Getahovit (Գետահովիտ, Ijevan, Tavush Province, Armenia) on June 18, 2012.Collected by Daniel Rydzi, Miroslav Polcar and Michal Hoskovec
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Scopoli G.A.:
Entomologia Carniolica exhibens Insecta Carniolæ indigena et distribua in ordines, genera, species, varietates. Methodo Linnæana.
Typis Ioannis Thomae Trattner, Vindobonae: 6 + i-xxiii + 421pp, 1763. [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 169-170], 1998 [ISBN: 80-238-2627-1]. [download[✮]
Vitali F.:
Atlas of the Insects of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg: Coleoptera, Cerambycidae.
Ferrantia, Musée national d’histoire naturelle, Luxembourg 79: 1-208 [pages 52-53], 2018. [download
[Photo © Daniel Rydzi]
[Photo © Milan Lovětínský]
[Photo © Milan Lovětínský]
[Photo © Michal Hoskovec]
| Subfamilia | Cerambycinae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Clytini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Chlorophorus Chevrolat, 1863 |
| Species | Chlorophorus figuratus (Scopoli, 1763) |