Cornumutila lineata (Letzner, 1844)
[= Leptura lineata Letzner, 1844]

Subfamilia: LEPTURINAE  /  Tribus: LEPTURINI

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Cornumutila lineata (Letzner, 1844) is a highly rare representative of the fauna of Palaearctic coniferous forests. In Europe the species occurs in mountainous habitats. The preferred host tree is spruce Picea. However, development in other coniferous trees has been reported as well. Two different niches are occupied by the beetles. In High Tatra (Slovak Republic) the species oviposits into dead wood of wounded living trees. Usually, barkless wounds in trunks are chosen for development. However, in Czech Republic (Hrubý Jeseník) dead tops of living trees are chosen for development. These tops frequently break in storms and fall to the ground. The larval substrate comprises a highly moist red-brown inner wood present both in the wounds and the dead tops of the hosts.

C. lineata, misdetermined for decades as a closely related Siberian taxon Cornumutila quadrivittata (Gebler, 1830) [▽], has been first described from Hrubý Jeseník Mts. (North Moravia, Czechia) as Leptura lineata by Karl Wilhelm Letzner in 1844 [❖].

Body length:	8 - 13 mm
Life cycle:	3 years
Adults in:	June - August
Host plant:	conifers (Picea, Larix, Pinus, Abies)
Distribution:	Austria, Czechia, France, Italy, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Uzbekistan

Depicted mounted specimens were reared ex ovo in Picea abies (source locality: N50°04′ E17°13′, Praděd Mt., Karlova Studánka environs, 1200 m a.s.l., Hrubý Jeseník Mts., Bruntál district, Moravian-Silesian region, North Moravia, Czechia, October 2002) in June 2009.

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[❖]
Letzner K.W.:
Leptura lineata n. sp.
Bericht über die Arbeiten der entomologischen Section im Jahre 1843.
Übersicht der Arbeiten und Verhanderungen der schlesischen Gesellschaft für vaterlandische Kultur im Jahre 1843: 170-174.
Gedrückt bei Graß, Barth und Comp., S. Breslau. [download ]

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Lazarev M.A.:
Restitution of the taxon Cornumutila lineata (Letzner, 1844), stat. rest. (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) from Western Europe and Russia.
Special Bulletin of the Japanese Society of Coleopterology, Tokyo 25-27 7: 117-126, 2009. [download ]

Danilevsky M.L.:
Longicorn beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycoidea) of Russia and adjacent countries. Part 1.
Higher School Consulting, Moscow, 550pp [pages 224-225], 2014. [download ]

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 227-229], 1998 [ISBN: 80-238-2627-1]. [download ]

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Subfamilia	Lepturinae Latreille, 1802
Tribus	Lepturini Latreille, 1802
Genus	Cornumutila Letzner, 1844
Species	Cornumutila lineata (Letzner, 1844)