Lamiomimus gottschei Kolbe, 1886

Subfamilia: LAMIINAE  /  Tribus: SAPERDINI
Lamiomimus gottschei
[Photo © Kirill V. Makarov, click on the picture for 4K resolution]

Lamiomimus gottschei, a striking species occuring in Russian Far East, China and Korea, has been described from Korea by Hermann Julius Kolbe in 1886 [▽]. L. gottschei, inhabiting North-East Asian deciduous forest zone, develop in roots and basal (and underground) parts of trunks of dying/dead deciduous trees (Quercus, Betula, Salix, etc.). Larvae feed subcortically creating longitudinal galleries filled with coarse fibrous frass and impressed in the sawpood. After the third overwintering they create a pupal cell under the bark, completely lined by fibrous frass, and pupate. Adults, active in summer (July - August), require maturation feeding on the host trees bark [✧].

Body length:18 - 42 mm
Life cycle:3 years
Adults in:July - September
Host plant:polyphagous in deciduous trees (Quercus, Betula, Salix, etc.)
Distribution:Russian Far East, China, Korea


The depicted female beetle (35 mm) was collected in Kaymanovka (Каймановка) village environs (N43°38.808′ E132°15.650′; Ussuriysky Urban Okrug, Primorsky Krai, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia) on August 22, 2007.

Collected by Kirill V. Makarov


[▽]
Kolbe H.J.:
Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Coleopteren-Fauna Koreas, bearbeitet auf Grund der von Herr Dr. C. Gottsche während der Jahre 1883 und 1884 in Korea veranstaltelen Sammlung; nebst Bemerkungen über die zoogeographischen Verhältnisse dieses Faunengebiets und Unterungen über einen Sinnesapparat im Gaumem von Misolampidiius morio.
Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin 52 (1): 139-240, 1886. [download pdf icon]

[✧]
Cherepanov A.I.:
Cerambycidae of Northern Asia, Volume 3 - Laminae Part I.
Amerind Publishing, New Delhi: 300pp [pages 241-247], 1990. [download pdf icon]



 
SubfamiliaLamiinae Latreille, 1825
TribusLamiini Latreille, 1825
GenusLamiomimus Kolbe, 1886
SpeciesLamiomimus gottschei Kolbe, 1886