ssp. glaucus (Fabricius, 1781)
[= Cerambyx (Callidium) indus Gmelin, 1790]
[= Clytus Webbii Brullé, 1839]
[= Clytus griseus Laporte & Gory, 1841]
[= Clytus consobrinus P.H. Lucas, 1851]
[= Clytus lugens Küster, 1848]
[= Clytus nigrosignatus Fairmaire, 1856]
[= Clytus quinquepunctatus P.H. Lucas, 1848]
[= Clytus quadrimaculatus Drouet, 1859]
[= Clytanthus glabromaculatus var. unifasciatus Pic, 1898]
[= Chlorophorus pilosus var. vittatus Rungs, 1947]
Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE / Tribus: CLYTINI
[Photo © David Navrátil, click on the picture for 4K resolution]
Chlorophorus glabromaculatus glabromaculatus, a well known longhorn beetle occuring in West Mediterranean region and South-West of the Central Europe, has been described as Leptura Glabro-maculata by Johann August Goeze in 1777 [▽]. Its subspecies Ch. glabromaculatus glaucus, known from West Mediterranean region, was described from "India Orientalis (!)" as Callidium glaucum by Johann Christian Fabricius in 1781 [✮]. Larvae of Ch. glabromaculatus (both subspecies) develop in dead branches and small trunks of plethora of deciduos trees. Life-cycle 2 and more years, adults which are active from the end of May to August can be found on host plants and occasionally also on white flowers.
The real taxonomic status of this beautiful subspecies (or according to some authors even species), which female have grey elytra but males are essentially indistinguishable from the nominate subspecies (and also biology is the same), is still not completely clarified [✧]. The views of many colleagues that these are only colour forms of a single taxon – Chlorophorus glabromaculatus (Goeze, 1777) – may be justified.
Body length: 8 – 18 mm Life cycle: 2 and more years Adults in: May – August Host plant: broadly polyphagous in deciduous trees (Quercus, Acer, Castanea, Ficus, Genista, etc.) Distribution: West Mediterranean region (Azores, France, Sardinia, Portugal, Spain, Algeria, Canary Islands, Morocco, Tunisia
The mounted specimens were reared from larvae found in a dead oak branch in Santuari de Lluc monastery environs (N39°51′39″ E02°54′58″; 440 m a.s.l., Escorca municipality, Mallorca, Balearic Islands province, Spain) on August 6, 2021. The depicted living female beetle was collected in Sierra Bermeja (1000 m a.s.l., Málaga province, Andalusia, Spain) on May 9, 2024.Collected by David Navrátil and Ismael Pérez
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Goeze J.A.E.:
Entomologische Beyträge zu des Ritter Linné zwölften Ausgabe des Natursystems.
Weidmanns Erben und Reich, Leipzig, 1: v-xvi + 736pp, 1777. [download]
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Fabricius J.Ch.:
Species insectorum exhibentes eorum differentias specificas, synonyma auctorum, loca natalia, metamorphosin adiectis observationibus, descriptionibus.
Hamburgi et Kilonii: Carol Ernest Bohnii 1: iii-viii + 552pp, 1781. [download[✧]
Vitali F.:
Atlas of the Insects of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg: Coleoptera, Cerambycidae.
Ferrantia, Musée national d’histoire naturelle, Luxembourg 79: 1-208 [pages 55-56], 2018. [downloadTrócoli S.:
Actualización del catálogo de Longicornios de Marruecos Actualisation du catalogue des Longicornes du Maroc (Parte III / Partie III : Cerambycidae, Cerambycinae).
Revue de l'Association Roussillonnaise d'Entomologie (R.A.R.E.) 28 (3): 143-185, 2019. [download
[Photo © Ismael Pérez]
| Subfamilia | Cerambycinae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Clytini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Chlorophorus Chevrolat, 1863 |
| Species | Chlorophorus glabromaculatus (Goeze, 1777) |
| Subspecies | Chlorophorus glabromaculatus glaucus (Fabricius, 1781) |