[= Callidium nigromaculatum Kano, 1933]
[= Callidium japonicum Plavilstshikov, 1933]
[= Semanotus plavilstshikovi Matsushita, 1933]
Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE / Tribus: CALLIDIINI
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Callidiellum rufipenne, an interesting East-Asian species occuring originally in Japan, Korea and China, has been described as Callidium rufipenne from Japan by Victor Ivanovitsch Motschulsky in 1861 [✧]. At the end of the twentieth century, this species was introduced to Europe, where it gradually spread (currently it is known from Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Italy, Slovenia, and Spain) [❖][▽][✮][✳]. However, it is likely that the range of its occurrence will continue to expand.
The biology of the species is similar to related taxa of the genus Callidium. C. rufipenne larvae develop in weakened, dying or freshly dead coniferous trees (Cryptomeria, Pinus, Abies, Larix, Chamaecyparis, Thuja). The length of the life cycle depends on climatic conditions, it can be one year or two years [✮][✳].
Body length: 9 - 15 mm Life cycle: 1 - 2 years Adults in: April - August Host plant: polyphagous in coniferous trees (Cryptomeria, Pinus, Abies, Larix, Chamaecyparis, Thuja) Distribution: introduced from North-East Asia (Japan or China) to South and West Europe (Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Italy, Slovenia, Spain)
Depicted mounted beetles were collected in Tsutsu environs (Tsushima Island, Nagasaki prefecture, Japan) on May 11, 1993.Collected by Takahisa Watanabe
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Motschulsky V.I.:
II. Entomologie spéciale. Insectes du Japon.
Études Entomologiques 9: 4-39, 1861.[❖]
Campadelli G. and Sama D.:
Prima segnalazione per l'Italia di un cerambicide giapponese: Callidiellum rufipenne Motschulsky.
Bollettino del l’Istituto di Entomologia della R. Universita degli Studi di Bologna XLIII: 69-73, 1988. [download]
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Van Meer C. and Cocquempot Ch.:
Découverte d'un foyer de Callidiellum rufipenne (Motschulsky, 1861) dans les Pyrénées-Atlantiques (France) et correction nomenclaturale (Cerambycidae Cerambycinae Callidiini).
L'Entomologiste 69 (2): 87-95, 2013. [download[✮]
Drumont A., Smets K., Scheers K., Thomaes A., Vandenhoudt R. and Lodewyckx M.:
Callidiellum rufipenne (Motschulsky, 1861) en Belgique : bilan de sa présence et de son installation sur notre territoire (Coleoptera : Cerambycidae : Cerambycinae).
Bulletin de la Société royale belge d'Entomologie 150: 239-249, 2014. [download[✳]
Đukić A. and Rapuzzi P.:
Callidiellum rufipenne (Motschulsky, 1860) new longhorn beetle to the fauna of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia (Coleoptera Cerambycidae).
Biodiversity Journal 11 (3): 761-763, 2020. [download
| Subfamilia | Cerambycinae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Callidiini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Callidiellum Linsley, 1940 |
| Species | Callidiellum rufipenne (Motschulsky, 1861) |