Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: CEROPLESINI
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Ceroplesis aestuans, an interesting representative of the Ethiopian longhorn beetle fauna reaching the Maghreb region (Southern Morocco) in the northern borders of its occurence, has been described from Senegal as Cerambyx aestuans by Guillaume-Antoine Olivier in 1800 [✱]. Larval development in dead or dying wood of Vachellia (former Acacia) species. Adults, active from November to January (but also in May), are nocturnal and can be attracted by light or found on host trees [❖][✮].
Body length: 21 - 35 mm Life cycle: 1 – 2 years Adults in: November – January, May Host plant: Vachellia tortilis raddiana in Morocco Distribution: Morocco, Ethiopian region (Niger, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Kamerun, Central African Republic, Kongo-Kinshasa, Uganda)
Depicted mounted were rared from larvae found in Vachellia tortilis raddiana stems in Smara (السمارة) environs (Western Sahara, Morocco) in May 2014 and May 2022.Collected by Lukáš Skořepa and Petr Jelínek
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Olivier G.-A.:
Entomologie ou Histoire Naturelle des Insectes, avec leurs caractères génériques et spécifiques, leur description, leur synonymie et leur figure enluminée Coléoptères.
Imprimerie de Lanneau, Paris 4: 1-519 (1795), 1800. [download]
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Rungs Ch.:
A propos de quelques coléoptères Cérambycidae du Maroc.
Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 52 (7): 97-101, 1947. [download[✮]
Trócoli S.:
Actualización del catálogo de Longicornios de Marruecos Actualisation du catalogue des Longicornes du Maroc (Parte IV / Partie IV : Cerambycidae : Lamiinae).
Revue de l'Association Roussillonnaise d'Entomologie (R.A.R.E.) 29 (1): 26-65, 2020. [download
[Photo © Petr Jelínek]
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Ceroplesini J. Thomson, 1860 |
| Genus | Ceroplesis Audinet-Serville, 1835 |
| Species | Ceroplesis aestuans (Olivier, 1800) |