[= Purpuricenus Wredii Fischer-Waldheim, 1824]
[= Purpuricenus affinis Brullé, 1832]
Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE / Tribus: TRACHYDERINI
Purpuricenus budensis ♂ [Photo © Daniel Rydzi]
Purpuricenus budensis, a widely distributed Mediterranean species reaching the northern limit of its occurence as far as Central Europe (Slovakia, Hungary), has been described from Wilhelmsbad environs (Hesse, Germany) as Cerambyx Budensis by Georg Friedrich Götz in 1783 [❖]
Body length: 10 - 22 mm Life cycle: 2 - 3 years Adults in: May - August Host plant: polyphagous in deciduous trees (Prunus, Quercus, Ulmus, Paliurus, Salix, Pistacia etc.) Distribution: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Ukraine, Armenia, Syria, Turkey
The depicted beetles were collected in Katafigio Agrias Zois Kampos (Καταφύγιο Άγριας Ζωής Κάμπος) park (Karyes environs, Sparta municipality, Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece) on May 28, 2021 and in Meteora (Μετέωρα) environs (Thessaly, Greece) on May 24, 2022.Collected by Daniel Rydzi
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Götz G.F.:
Beytrag zur Naturgeschichte der Insekten.
Der Naturforscher 19: 70-77, 1783. [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 101-102], 1998 [ISBN: 80-238-2627-1]. [downloadRichoux P., Allemand R., Pupier R., Delaunay L.:
Biogéographie des Purpuricenus (Col. Cerambycidae) dans le Sud de la France.
Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 55 (9): 305-318, 1986. [download
Purpuricenus budensis ♀ [Photo © Daniel Rydzi]
| Subfamilia | Cerambycinae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Trachyderini Dupont, 1836 |
| Genus | Purpuricenus Dejean, 1821 |
| Species | Purpuricenus budensis (Götz, 1783) |