Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE / Tribus: HESPEROPHANINI
[Photo © David Navrátil & 8K postprocessing M.Hoskovec]
Trichoferus campestris, a nocturnal longhorn beetle described by Franz Faldermann from northern China in 1835 [✶], is considered an invasive and rapidly spreading species, also classified as a European quarantine organism. Originally it occurred only in Asia, but since the end of the 20th century it has spread very rapidly to the west and today it has already stabilized populations in many European countries [❖][✳], including Czechia [✧] and Slovakia [★]. It develops in a wide range of deciduous trees, but can also attack cut conifers and sometimes even wooden buildings or wooden products (e.g. pallets).
Body length: 11 - 28 mm Life cycle: 2 and more years Adults in: June - August Host plant: polyphagous in deciduous trees (Juglans, Pyrus, Betula, Populus, Ulmus, Acer and many others) Distribution: Czechia (Moravia), Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
The depicted mounted beetles were reared ox ovo in birch (Betula sp.) in Otrokovice (Moravia, Czechia) in 2010. The living specimens were reared from larvae found in Štitáre village environs (Nitra district, Nitra region, Slovakia) on March 15, 2025.Collected by Ondřej Sabol and Michal Buben
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Faldermann F.:
Coleopterorum ab illustrissimo Bungio in China boreali, Mongolia et montibus Alaicis collectorum, nec non ab ill. Turczaninoffio et Stschukino e provincia Irkutzk missorum illustrationes.
Mémoires présentés à l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg (Sixième Série), Sciences Mathématiques, Physiques et Naturelles 2: 337-464, 1835. [download]
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Dascǎlu M.-M., Serafim R. & Lindelöw Å.:
Range expansion of Trichoferus campestris (Faldermann) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in Europe with the confirmation of its presence in Romania.
Entomologica Fennica 24 (3): 142-146, 2013. [download[✳]
Cocquempot Ch., Henin J.-M.c, Jourez B., Rapuzzi P., Roques A., Drumont A.:
État de l’invasion de Trichoferus campestris (Faldermann, 1835) au plan international et réflexion sur sa première interception en Belgique (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Cerambycinae, Hesperophanini).
Belgian Journal of Entomology 129: 1-24, 2022. [download[✧]
Sabol O.:
Trichoferus campestris (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) – nový druh tesaříka v České Republice a na Slovensku.
[ Trichoferus campestris (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) – a new species of longhorn beetle for the Cyech Republic andd Slovakia. ]
Klapalekiana 45: 199–201, 2009. [download[★]
Sabol O., Puľák P., Kodada J. and Hergovits R.:
Neoclytus acuminatus (Fabricius, 1775) - první údaje o výskytu na Slovensku (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
[ Neoclytus acuminatus (Fabricius, 1775) – the first distributional records from Slovakia (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). ]
Entomofauna Carpathica 32 (1): 211-214, 2020. [download
Trichoferus campestris ♂ [Photo © Daniuel Rydzi]
Trichoferus campestris ♀ [Photo © Daniuel Rydzi]
Trichoferus campestris ♀ [Photo © Daniuel Rydzi]
| Subfamilia | Cerambycinae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Hesperophanini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Trichoferus Wollaston, 1854 |
| Species | Trichoferus campestris (Faldermann, 1835) |