[= Nothorhina muricata (Dalman, 1817)]
Subfamilia: SPONDYLIDINAE / Tribus: ASEMINI
[Photo © Petr Jelínek]
Nothorhina punctata, a widely distributed but very rare and local West-Palaearctic species, has been described from Saxony as Callidium punctatum by Johann Christian Fabricius in 1798 [✮].
Body length: 6 - 12 mm Life cycle: 1 (2?) years Adults in: June - July Host plant: solitary pines (Pinus) Distribution: Albania, Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia (North Central and Southern European Territory, Western Siberia), Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, Japan, Kazakhstan, Turkey
The living beetles in the pictures were photographed in locality near Třeboň (South Bohemia, Czechia) on bark of a living solitary pine trees(Pinus sylvestris). Excuse us please for low quality of live beetle pictures, but Nothorhina muricata is very fragile, shy and extremely fast running beetle, hidden under bark scales most of the day-time.Collected by Petr Jelínek
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Fabricius J.Ch.:
Supplementum entomologiae systematicae.
Proft & Storch, Hafniae, 572pp, 1798. [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 74-75], 1998 [ISBN: 80-238-2627-1]. [downloadDanilevsky M.L.:
Longicorn beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycoidea) of Russia and adjacent countries. Part 1.
Higher School Consulting, Moscow, 550pp [pages 380-382], 2014. [download
[Photo © Petr Jelínek]
| Subfamilia | Spondylidinae Audinet-Serville, 1832 |
| Tribus | Asemini Thomson, 1860 |
| Genus | Nothorhina Redtenbacher, 1845 |
| Species | Nothorhina punctata (Fabricius, 1798) |