ssp. nigra (Linnaeus, 1758)
[= Strangalia nigra (Linnaeus, 1758)]
[= Stenurella (Nigrostenurella) nigra (Linnaeus, 1758)]
Subfamilia: LEPTURINAE / Tribus: LEPTURINI
[Photo © Tamás Németh]
Rutpela nigra belongs among the common flower-visiting longhorn beetles in Europe. Its larvae develop in the rotten but relatively dry wood of thin branches and trunks of deciduous trees, out of touch with the soil. Quercus, Carpinus, Ulmus, Frangula, Corylus and Betula are specifically indicated, but without a doubt many of other deciduous trees can serve as a host tree. Pupation in the wood in spring and early summer, life-cycle 2 years. Adults, active from May to August, are diurnal and anthophilous [❖][▽].
Genus Stenurella Villiers, 1974 was divided into six subgenera (including nominotypical subgenus) by Hüseyin Özdikmen in 2013 [✧]. Nigrostenurella was then reassigned as a subgenus to the genus Rutpela Nakane et Ohbayashi, 1959 based on molecular and morphometric characters by Andrii M. Zamoroka et al. in 2022 [✳].
Body length: ♂ ♂ 6.0 - 9.3 mm / ♀♀ 6.5 - 10.0 mm Life cycle: 2 years Adults in: May - August Host plant: larval development in decaying wood of deciduous trees Distribution: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey
The beetles in the pictures were photographed on flowers in Hungary on on May 20, 2018 and in Svatý Jan pod Skalou environs (Bohemian Karst, Beroun district, Central Bohemia, Czechia) on June 1, 2014.Collected by Tamás Németh and Daniel Rydzi
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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 [page 263], 1998 [ISBN: 80-238-2627-1]. [download]
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Danilevsky M.L.:
Longicorn beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycoidea) of Russia and adjacent countries. Part 1.
Higher School Consulting, Moscow, 550pp [pages 349-351], 2014. [download[✧]
Özdikmen H.:
An attempt on subgeneric composition of the palaearctic genus Stenurella Villiers, 1974 (Cerambycidae: Lepturinae: Lepturini).
Munis Entomology & Zoology 8 (2): 509-531, 2013. [download[✳]
Zamoroka A.M., Trócoli S., Shparyk V.Y., Semaniuk D.V.:
Polyphyly of the genus Stenurella (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae): Consensus of morphological and molecular data.
Biosystems Diversity 30 (2): 119–136, 2022. [download
[Photo © Daniel Rydzi]
| Subfamilia | Lepturinae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Lepturini Latreille, 1804 |
| Genus | Rutpela Nakane et Ohbayashi, 1959 |
| Subgenus | Nigrostenurella Özdikmen, 2013 |
| Species | Rutpela (Nigrostenurella) nigra (Linnaeus, 1758) |
| Subspecies | Rutpela (Nigrostenurella) nigra nigra (Linnaeus, 1758) |