Japanocorus caeruleipennis, a striking species known from Japan and recently discovered by Kirill V. Makarov in Kunashir (Russian Far East), has been described as Toxotus caeruleipennis
by Henry Walter Bates in 1873 [▽]. Mikhail Danilevsky estabilished for this taxon a new monotypic genus Japanocorus in 2012 [✧].
Larvae develop in soil on the roots of Cornus controversa, Cornus macrophylla and Benthamidia japonica. The adults are active from May to August [❖].
| Body length: | ♂♂ 17.0 - 23.0 mm / ♀♀ 22 - 26 mm |
| Life cycle: | at least 2 years |
| Adults in: | May - August |
| Host plant: | roots of deciduous trees and shrubs |
| Distribution: | Russian Far East (Kunashir), Japan |
The depicted male beetle was collected at stream mouth 1.5 km S of Cap Ivanovsky
(N43°49′04″ E145°24′40″; Kunashir/Кунаши́р island, Kuril Islands, Yuzhno-Kurilsky district, Sakhalin region, Russia)
on August 17, 2011.
Collected by Kirill V. Makarov
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Bates H.W.:
On the Longicorn Coleoptera of Japan.
The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London (4) 12 (69): 193-201, 1873.
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[✧]
Danilevsky M.L.:
Additions and corrections to the new Catalogue of Palaearctic Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) edited by I. Löbl and A. Smetana, 2010. Part. VI.
Humanity space - International Almanac 1 (4): 900-943, 2012.
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[❖]
Danilevsky M.L.:
Longicorn beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycoidea) of Russia and adjacent countries. Part 1.
Higher School Consulting, Moscow, 550pp [page 92-93], 2014.
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