ssp. perroudi Pic, 1942
[= Dorcadion sericatum Ganglbauer, 1884]
[= Dorcadion caucasicum Plavilstshikov, 1948]
Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: DORCADIONINI
[Photo © Kirill V. Makarov, click on the picture for 4K resolution]
Dorcadion (Cribridorcadion) cinerarium, described from South Russia as Lamia cineraria by Johann Christian Fabricius in 1787 [❖], is one of the most common and widely distributed species of the genus, occupying the territories of the whole Ukraine and Moldova, as well as south of Russia and north-east Azerbaijan. D. cinerarium is not only one of the first described Dorcadions but is also probably a longhorn beetle with the largest number of known subspecies. One of the twenty subspecies (spring 2021), a subspecies endemic to Crimea, is D. cinerarium perroudi described as Dorcadion sericatum v. Perroudi by Maurice Pic in 1942 [✧]. A complex and detail revision of taxon cinerarium by Maxim Lazarev was published in 2011 [▽].
Body length: ♂♂ 9.8-13.2 mm / ♀♀ 11.3-15.5 mm Life cycle: 1 year Adults in: April - June Host plant: roots and basal stem parts of Poaceae Distribution: an endemic subspecies to Crimea (Russia)
The depicted beetles (♂ 12 mm / ♀ 13 mm ) were collected ca 3.5 S of Tankove (Танковое) (N44°37′28″ E33°47′52″; Chardakly-Bair plateau, Bakhchysarai Raion, Crimea, Russia) on May 9, 2017.Collected by Kirill V. Makarov
[❖]
Fabricius J.Ch.:
Mantissa insectorum sistens eorum species nuper detectas adiectis characteribus genericis, differentiis specificis, emendationibus, observationibus.
Hafniae, Proft 1: xx + 348pp, 1787. [download]
[✧]
Pic M.:
Opuscula martialis VII.
L'Echange, Revue Linnéenne, Numéro spécial 7: 1-16, 1942. [download[▽]
Lazarev M.A.:
A revision of the taxonomic structure of Dorcadion cinerarium (Fabricius, 1787) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Studies and Reports of District Museum Prague-East, Taxonomical Series 7 (1-2): 255-292, 2011. [download
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Dorcadionini Swainson, 1840 |
| Genus | Dorcadion Dalman, 1817 |
| Subgenus | Cribridorcadion Pic, 1901 |
| Species | Dorcadion (Cribridorcadion) cinerarium (Fabricius, 1787) |
| Subspecies | Dorcadion (Cribridorcadion) cinerarium perroudi Pic, 1942 |