Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE / Tribus: CLYTINI
[Photo © M.Hoskovec]
Xylotrechus stebbingi, a species of Oriental origin widespreading in Western Palaearctic during the last 30 years [✧], has been described from Himalaya by Charles Joseph Gahan in 1906 [▽]. According to Francesco Vitali this introduced species was for a long time errorneously identified and corresponds to a taxon Xylotrechus smei (Laporte de Castelnau & Gory, 1841) [❖]. Gianfranco Sama refuted this theory in his 2006 paper [★] (to illustrate, we present photographs of type specimens of both discussed taxa provided by Pierpaolo Rapuzzi).
Body length: 12 - 23 mm Life cycle: 2 years Adults in: May - July Host plant: polyphagous in deciduous trees Distribution: introduced to Albania, Crete, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Israel, Liban, Slovenia, Syria, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey
The mounted beetles were reared from larvae found in a dead large diameter branch of Ficus carica. The branch was collected in Neo Ithilo (Lakoonia nomos, SW of Peloponnese, Greece) in May 1998. This record represented the first evidence of this introduced species' presence in continental Greece.Collected by M.Hoskovec
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Gahan Ch.J.:
The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Coleoptera. - Vol. I. (Cerambycidæ).
London, C. T. Bingham: xviii + 329 pp, 1906. [download]
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Braud Y., Ramos R., Cocquempot Ch.:
Nouvelles observations de Xylotrechus stebbingi Gahan, 1906, en Europe et en Afrique du Nord (Col., Cerambycidae).
Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France, Paris 107 (5): 487-488, 2002. [download[❖]
Vitali F.:
Xylotrechus smei (Castelnau & Gory, 1841): Its presence in Western Palaearctic region and description of the pupa (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Doriana 7 (340): 1-8, 2004. [download[★]
Sama G.:
Taxonomical remarks on Xylotrechus smei (Castelnau & Gory, 1841) and X. stebbingi Gahan, 1906 and their distribution in western palaearctic region (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Doriana, Genova 8 (351): 1-10, 2006.
[Photo © Daniel Rydzi]
[Photo © Daniel Rydzi]
| Subfamilia | Cerambycinae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Clytini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Xylotrechus Chevrolat, 1860 |
| Subgenus | Xylotrechus Chevrolat, 1860 |
| Species | Xylotrechus (Xylotrechus) stebbingi Gahan, 1906 |