Saperda (Eusaperda) maculosa Ménétriés, 1832
[= Saperda scalaris maculosa Ménétriés, 1832]

Subfamilia: LAMIINAE  /  Tribus: SAPERDINI
Saperda maculosa
[Photo © Michal Hoskovec 2001, Fuji Superia 400 35 mm film scan]

Saperda (Eusaperda) maculosa, a rare and not often collected species endemic to Azerbaijan and West Iran, has been described from Lenkoran (Azerbaijan) by Edouard Ménétriés in 1832 [❖]. The biology of this beautiful and interesting species is basically the same as that of the closely related
Saperda (Eusaperda) scalaris (Linnaeus, 1758).

Body length:10 - 18 mm
Life cycle:1 - 2 years
Adults in:April - June
Host plant:polyphagous in deciduous trees, prefers cherry (Prunus)
Distribution:Azerbaijan, Iran


The beetle in the pictures was reared from a praepupa found in a pupal cell built in the sapwood of a dead cherry tree. It was collected in Calus environs (North Iran).

Collected by Martin Rejzek


[❖]
Ménétriés E.:
Catalogue raisonné des objets de Zoologie recueillis dans un voyage au Caucase et jusqu'aux frontières actuelles de la Perse entrepris par ordre de S. M. L' Empereur.
Saint-Pétersbourg 4: 271pp + i-xxxviii, 1832. [download pdf icon]

Daniel K.:
VIII. Kleinere Mitteilungen. 7-11.
Coleopteren-Studien 2 (7): 83-88, 1898. [download pdf icon]


Saperda maculosa
Saperda maculosa
[Photo © Michal Hoskovec 2001, Fuji Superia 400 35 mm film scan]


 
SubfamiliaLamiinae Latreille, 1825
TribusSaperdini Mulsant, 1839
GenusSaperda Fabricius, 1775
SubgenusEusaperda Danilevsky, 2023
SpeciesSaperda (Eusaperda) maculosa Ménétriés, 1832