Subfamilia: SPONDYLIDINAE / Tribus: SAPHANINI
[Photo © David Navrátil, click on the picture for 4K resolution]
Oxypleurus nodieri is a rare Mediterranean longhorn beetle associated with a variety of pines [✮][✳]. The larvae feed in recently dead branches and pupate in shallow pupal cells built in sapwood. The adults are nocturnal and can be found early in the spring. The species has been described from France by Étienne Mulsant in 1839 [❖]. Morphology of genus Oxypleurus has been well described by Petr Švácha and John F. Lawrence in 2014 [✧].
Body length: 11 – 16 mm Life cycle: 2 and more years Adults in: April – December Host plant: dead wood of pines (Pinus halepensis, nigra, pinaster etc.) Distribution: whole Mediterranean area
The mounted specimens were reared by David Navrátil from larvae feeding in dead pines collected in: ♂ – Mount Srđ (375 m a.s.l., Dubrovník environs, Dubrovnik-Neretva county, Croatia) in July, ♀ – Bosquede la Esperanza environs (1685 m a.s.l., NE Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain) on June 26, 2019 together with larvae of Arhopalus pinetorum (Wollaston, 1863) and Arhopalus syriacus (Reitter, 1895). The depicted living beetle was collected in NW Spain by Martin Rejzek.
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Mulsant E.:
Histoire Naturelle des Coléoptères de France. Longicornes.
Paris, Maison: vii-xii + 304 pp [pages 57-58], 1839. [download]
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Teocchi P.:
Les points obscurs de la bionomie d'Oxypleurus nodieri [Col. Cerambycidae Aseminae].
L'Entomologiste 31 (4-5): 149-153, 1975. [download[✳]
Trócoli S.:
Actualización del catálogo de Longicornios de Marruecos Actualisation du catalogue des Longicornes du Maroc (Parte I / Partie I : Prioninae, Aseminae, Saphaninae).
Revue de l'Association Roussillonnaise d'Entomologie 27 (3): 130-140, 2018. [download[✧]
Švácha P. and Lawrence J.F.:
Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera. Volume 3: Morphology and Systematics (Phytophaga). 2.4 Cerambycidae Latreille, 1802
In Walter de Gruyter, Handbook of Zoology 3: i-xii (Richard A.B. Leschen & Rolf G. Beutel, Eds.), 676pp [pages 77-177], 2014. [download
[Photo © Michal Hoskovec]
| Subfamilia | Spondylidinae Audinet-Serville, 1832 |
| Tribus | Saphanini Gistel, 1856 |
| Genus | Oxypleurus Mulsant, 1839 |
| Species | Oxypleurus nodieri Mulsant, 1839 |