Pogonocherus perroudi, a broadly distributed Mediterranenan species, has been described from Bordeaux environs (France) by Étienne Mulsant in 1839 [✮]. Larvae develop under the bark of thinner branches, the tops of weakened or uprooted trees, in the lower naturally dying branches of living pine trees.

Body length:	4 - 8 mm
Life cycle:	1 - 2 years
Adults in:	April - August
Host plant:	dying pine (Pinus) branches (P. halepensis, P. nigra, P. pinaster, P. salzmanni)
Distribution:	Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Corsica, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Morocco, Sardinia, Sicily, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey

The depicted living beetles were reared from a larvae found in a dead pine (Pinus sp.) twigs collected in Samos island (Greece) and in Croatia.

Collected by Roman Rejzek and Petr Jelínek

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Mulsant E.:
Histoire Naturelle des Coléoptères de France. Longicornes.
Paris, Maison: vii-xii + 304pp, 1839. [download ]