Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE / Tribus: CERAMBYCINI
[Photo © David Navrátil, click on the picture for 4K resolution]
Cerambyx miles, a species very rare in warm regions of Central Europe and relatively common in entire Mediterranean region, Caucasus and Transcaucasia, has been described from Piemonte (Italy) by Franco Andrea Bonelli in 1812 [❖]. S. miles is in Central and Western Europe xerothermic species of oak, often grazing forests, forest-steppes, old gardens and abandoned orchards. Development under the bark and in the wood of living trees, especially oaks (but also other deciduous trees), the biology is similar to C. cerdo Linnaeus, 1758. Usually several generations develop in the same tree. Unlike other large European species of the genus Cerambyx, according to recent field data Cerambyx miles is a diurnal species (Luis Miguel Torres-Vila et al., 2023)[✮].
Body length: 26 - 46 mm Life cycle: 2 - 3 years Adults in: June - August Host plant: polyphagous in deciduous trees, prefers Quercus spp., but also in Carpinus, Prunus, Juglans, Fraxinus, Castanea, Malus, Crataegus etc. Distribution: Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Sicily, Malta, Slovenia, Croatia, Czechia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia, Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Switzerland, Crimea, Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon
The depicted mounted beetles were captured using wine trap in Biljevine village environs (Ličko-senjska županija, Croatia) on July 2-7, 2023.Collected by David Navrátil
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Bonelli F.A.:
Specimen Faunae subalpinae sistens Insecta Pedemontanii hucusque inedita, aut rariora, aut ea quae commodi damnive gratia quod inferunt, prudentis agricolae magis interest cognoscere. Fasc. 1. Coleoptera plerumque inedita comprehendens.
Memorie della reale Società Agraria di Torino 9: 149-183, 1812. [download]
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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 [pages 91-92], 1998 [ISBN: 80-238-2627-1]. [download[✮]
Torres-Vila L.M., Mendiola-Díaz F.J., López-Calvo R.L, Ponce-Escudero F., Sánchez-González Á., Fernández-Moreno F.:
Ad-hoc devised phototraps unravel Cerambyx miles diel activity in the wild (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Fragmenta Entomologica 55 (1): 101-116, 2023. [downloadÖzdikmen H. and Turgut S.:
On turkish Cerambyx Linnaeus, 1758 with zoogeographical remarks (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae).
Munis Entomology & Zoology 4 (2): 301-319, 2009. [download
Cerambyx miles ♂ [Photo © Nikola Rahmé]
Cerambyx miles ♀ [Photo © Nikola Rahmé]
| Subfamilia | Cerambycinae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Cerambycini Latreille, 1804 |
| Genus | Cerambyx Linnaeus, 1758 |
| Subgenus | Cerambyx Linnaeus, 1758 |
| Species | Cerambyx (Cerambyx) miles Bonelli, 1812 |