Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: SAPERDINI
[Photo © Nikola Rahme]
Oberea (Amaurostoma) euphorbiae, a European species widely but now only sparsely and sporadically occurring species associated with spurge, was described as Saperda Euphorbiæ from Hungary by Ernst Friedrich Germar in 1813 [❖]. O. euphorbiae, together with other "spurge"-species of the Oberea's subgenus Amaurostoma, belongs thanks to extreme habitual variability among the very taxonomically problematic longhorn beetles. Many O. euphorbieae specimens in collections often are misundetermined O. erythrocephala or O. histrionis, so the real occurence of this taxon (especially in Central Europe) needs recent validation. O. euphorbieae larvae develop in the basal part of the stem and roots of marsh spurge (Euphorbia palustris).
Body length: 11 - 17 mm Life cycle: 1 year Adults in: May - June Host plant: marsh spurge (Euphorbia palustris) Distribution: Austria, Croatia, Czechia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine
The depicted beetle was collected in Hungary in June 2025.Collected by Nikola Rahme
[❖]
Germar E.F.:
Magazin der Entomologie.
Hendel, Halle 1 (1): 146 pp, 1813. [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 326-327], 1998 [ISBN: 80-238-2627-1]. [download
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Saperdini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Oberea Dejean, 1835 |
| Subgenus | Amaurostoma Müller, 1906 |
| Species | Oberea (Amaurostoma) euphorbiae (Germar, 1813) |