Nathrius brevipennis (Mulsant, 1839)
[= Leptidea brevipennis Mulsant, 1839]
[= Leptidea minuta Motschulsky, 1845]
[= Gracilia manca LeConte, 1850]
[= Gracilia rufipennis Dufour, 1851]
[= Nathrius porteri Brèthes, 1916]

Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE  /  Tribus: PSEBIINI

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[Photo © David Navrátil, click on the picture for 4K resolution]

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Nathrius brevipennis has been described from Central France as Leptidea brevipennis by Étienne Mulsant in 1839 [❖]. This tiny Cerambycid seems to occur naturally only in South Europe, records from Central, Western and North Europe [*] are probably based on introduced specimens (mostly with wickerwork articles). Larvae feed first under bark, later in the wood of thin branches and twigs in 2 year life-cycle. Pupation in spring in the wood [✮].

Body length:	3 – 6 mm
Life cycle:	2 years
Adults in:	April – August
Host plant:	polyphagous in many taxa of deciduous trees (Castanea, Ficus, Ulmus, Juglans, Quercus, Amygdalus, Corylus, Salix, Pistacia, Robinia...)
Distribution:	Belgium*, Czechia*, France, Germany*, Italy, Netherlands*, Sicily, Slovakia*, Spain, United Kingdom*, Cyprus, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Algeria, Libya, Morocco

The depicted mounted beetles were reared from larva feeding in Amygdalus twig found in Senj (47 m a.s.l., Lika-Senj county, Croatia) on May 24, 2014.

Collected by David Navrátil

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[❖]
Mulsant É.:
Histoire Naturelle des Coléoptères de France. Longicornes.
Paris, Maison: vii-xii + 304pp [page 105], 1839. [download ]

[✮]
Sláma M.E.F.:
Tesaříkovití – Cerambycidae České republiky a Slovenské republiky.
[ Cerambycidae of the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic. ]
Milan Sláma private printing, Krhanice, 383pp [pages 118-119], 1998 [ISBN: 80-238-2627-1]. [download ]

Sláma M.E.F. and Berger P.:
Contribution to the knowledge of the genus Nathrius Brethes, 1916, with the description of N. cypericus n. sp. from Cyprus (Coleoptera : Cerambycidae).
Biocosme Mésogéen 23 (2): 55-65, 2006 [download ]

Sláma M.E.F.:
Taxonomic remarks on some west-palaearctic longhorn beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) and description of a new subspecies.
Biocosme Mésogéen 32 (1-2): 33-50, 2015 [download ]

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Subfamilia	Cerambycinae Latreille, 1802
Tribus	Psebiini Lacordaire, 1869
Genus	Nathrius Brèthes, 1916
Species	Nathrius brevipennis (Mulsant, 1839)