[= Chlorophorus pelleteri (Laporte de Castelnau & Gory, 1841)]
Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE / Tribus: CLYTINI
[Photo © David Navrátil, click on the picture for 4K resolution]
Rare Maghrebian taxon Chlorophorus pelletieri has been described from Oran environs (Algeria) as Clytus pelleteri by French entomolgists Francis Louis Laporte de Castelnau and Hippolyte Louis Gory in 1841 [❖]. The biology of the species, not yet specified in the literature (larval development in Quercus coccifera was only assumed), was confirmed by finding a pupa in a branch of Kermes oak in Touissit (Morocco) and the subsequent successful rearing of an adult (David Navrátil, 2024). Adults, active from May to July, are diurnal and anthophilous [✧].
Body length: 7 - 11 mm Life cycle: 2 years Adults in: May - July Host plant: Kermes oak (Quercus coccifera) Distribution: Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria
The depicted beetles were: ♂ - collected 10 km E of Aoulouz (أولوز, Taroudant province, Souss-Massa region, Morocco); ♀ - reared from pupa found in dead Quercus coccifera branch in Touissit (تويسيت) environs (1120 m a.s.l., Jerada province, Oriental region, Morocco) on April 8, 2024.Collected by L. Černý and David Navrátil
[❖]
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]
[✧]
Trócoli 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.) 8 (3): 143-185, 2019 [downloadVilliers A.:
Coléoptères Cérambycides de l'Afrique du Nord.
Faune de l'Empire Français, ORSC Paris, 5: 1-152, 1946. [download
| Subfamilia | Cerambycinae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Clytini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Chlorophorus Chevrolat, 1863 |
| Species | Chlorophorus pelletieri (Laporte de Castelnau & Gory, 1841) |