[= Leptura palmi Demelt, 1971]
Subfamilia: LEPTURINAE / Tribus: LEPTURINI
[Photo © David Navrátil & 8K postprocessing Michal Hoskovec]
Stictoleptura (Hesperoleptura) palmi, an endemic species to Tenerife Island (Canary Islands), has been described from Tenerife as Leptura palmi by Carl demelt in 1971 [▽]. The species was included in the newly established subgenus Hesperoleptura by Eduardo Vives i Noguera in 2021 [❖]. S. palmi is a relatively very demanding species in terms of habitat requirements, preferring humid laurel forests. Its larvae develop in the stumps and old dead trunks of the Laurus novocanariensis always in an advanced state of saproxilization [❖][✮].
Body length: ♂♂ 14 - 21 mm / ♀♀ 18 - 25 mm Life cycle: 2 - 3 years Adults in: June - August Host plant: prefers Laurus novocanariensis, but reported also from Pinus, Erica arborea, Myrica faya Distribution: endemic to Tenerife island (Canary Islands)
The depicted beetles were reared from pupae found in dead Laurus novocanariensis trunk collected in Santiago del Teide environs (1169 m a.s.l., West Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain) on June 24 - July 4, 2019 and in May 2021.Collected by David Navrátil and Petr Jelínek
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Demelt C.:
Beschreibung einer neuen Leptura-Art aus Teneriffa (Coleopt., Cerambycidae).
Zeitschrift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft österreichischer Entomologen 23 (3): 74-75, [1971] 1972. [download]
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Vives i Noguera E.:
Hesperoleptura nuevo subgénero de Lepturini de las Islas Canarias (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lepturinae). Notes on Lepturinae (21).
Faunitaxys 9 (12): 1-3, 2021. [download[✮]
Vives E. and Trócoli S:
Cerambycidae de la Macaronesia (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Faunitaxys 9 (44): 1–50, 2021. [download
Stictoleptura palmi ♀ [Photo © Michal Hoskovec]
Stictoleptura palmi ♀ [Photo © Michal Hoskovec]
Stictoleptura palmi ♂ [Photo © Michal Hoskovec]
| Subfamilia | Lepturinae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Lepturini Latreille, 1802 |
| Genus | Stictoleptura Casey, 1924 |
| Subgenus | Hesperoleptura Vives, 2021 |
| Species | Stictoleptura (Hesperoleptura) palmi (Demelt, 1971) |