Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE / Tribus: CLYTINI
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Chlorophorus capensis, a species known from South Africa and also from Arabian Peninsula, has been decribed as Clytus capensis from Cape Province (South Africa) by French entomolgists Francis Louis Laporte de Castelnau and Hippolyte Louis Gory in 1841 [▽]. It is not yet clear whether the occurrence of this species on the Arabian Peninsula is natural or an introduction.
Body length: 9 - 14 mm Life cycle: 1-2 years [?] Adults in: depends on region Host plant: probably polyphagous in broadleaf trees - development in Ficus sp. reported in Saudi Arabia [✩] Distribution: Saudi Arabia, Yemen, South Africa
The depicted beetle was reared from larva found in Ga-Sekgopo village environs (S23°39′27″ E29°52′52″; 826 m a.s.l., Limpopo province, South Africa) on November 22-24, 2021.Collected by our friend Roman Rejzek
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Laporte de Castelnau F.L. and Gory H.L.:
Monographie du genre Clytus.
Histoire naturelle et iconographie des insectes coleopteres, Paris, 3 [1836], 124pp, 1841. [download]
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Holzschuh C.:
Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of Saudi Arabia: Part II, Prioninae and Cerambycinae.
Fauna of Saudi Arabia 13: 110-129, 1993. [downloadRapuzzi P. and al Dhafer H.:
The Cerambycidae fauna of Saudi Arabia (Coleoptera).
Revue suisse de Zoologie 131 (1): 177-217, 2024. [download
[Photo © Daniel Rydzi]
| Subfamilia | Cerambycinae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Clytini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Chlorophorus Chevrolat, 1863 |
| Species | Chlorophorus capensis (Laporte de Castelnau & Gory, 1841) |