ssp. cruciata Sama, 1996
Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: DESMIPHORINI
[Photo © David Navrátil]
Deroplia troberti, a widely distributed West-Mediterranean species, has been described as Stenidea Troberti from Algeria by Étienne Mulsant in 1843 [❖]. Its subspecies D. troberti cruciata, endemic to Crete (Greece), has been described by Gianfranco Sama in 1996 [✮]. D. troberti larvae develop in dying or freshly dead thin branches and twigs of various broodleaf trees and bushes, but its preferred host plant is Nerium oleander.
Body length: 6 - 13 mm Life cycle: 1 - 2 years Adults in: September - May (the maximal activity in winter) Host plant: polyphagous in dead twigs of deciduous trees (Quercus, Nerium oleander, Pistacia, Laurus) Distribution: subspecies endemic to Crete
The depicted beetles were reared from larvae feeding in thin terminal twigs of Nerium oleander collected in Stomio environs (9 m a.s.l., Chania region, Crete, Greece) on June 22, 2018.Collected by David Navrátil
[❖]
Mulsant É.:
Description de quelques Coléoptères inédits.
Annales des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles d'Agriculture et d'Industrie, Lyon 6: 276-286 [pages], 1843. [download]
[✮]
Sama G.:
Révision du genre Deroplia Dejean, 1835.
Biocosme Mésogéen 110 13 (2): 23-64, 1996. [download
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Desmiphorini Thomson, 1860 |
| Genus | Deroplia Dejean, 1835 |
| Subgenus | Deroplia Dejean, 1835 |
| Species | Deroplia (Deroplia) troberti (Mulsant, 1843) |
| Subspecies | Deroplia (Deroplia) troberti cruciata Sama, 1996 |