Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE / Tribus: CLYTINI
[Photo © Daniel Rydzi]
Chlorophorus trifasciatus, a species widely distributed in whole Mediterranean region, has been described from Portugal as Callidium trifasciatum by Johann Christian Fabricius in 1781 [▽]. Ch. trifasciatus, a typical inhabitant of uncultivated and ruderal areas, forest-steppes, generally xerothermic localities of rather steppe character, belongs among the Clytini tribe taxa not developing in the above-ground parts of woody plants but in the roots of legumes (Fabaceae).
Body length: 6 - 12 mm Life cycle: 2 years Adults in: May - July Host plant: larvae in roots of Fabaceae (Ononis, Dorycnium) Distribution: S and SE Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Near East
The mounted beetle was collected on Achillea in in Argelès-sur-Mer environs (Pyrénées-Orientales department, Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées, France) on June 20, 2018 and in Somosierra environs (Sierra de Guadarrama, Sierra Norte county, Community of Madrid, Spain) on June 14, 2021.Collected by Daniel Rydzi
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Fabricius J.Ch.:
Species insectorum exhibentes eorum differentias specificas, synonyma auctorum, loca natalia, metamorphosin adiectis observationibus, descriptionibus.
Hamburgi et Kilonii: Carol Ernest Bohnii 1: iii-viii + 552pp, 1781. [download]
[Photo © Daniel Rydzi]
| Subfamilia | Cerambycinae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Clytini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Chlorophorus Chevrolat, 1863 |
| Species | Chlorophorus varius (O.F.Müller, 1766) |
| Subspecies | Chlorophorus trifasciatus (Fabricius, 1781) |