Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE / Tribus: CLYTINI
[Photo © Daniel Rydzi]
Chlorophorus sartor, a widespread Euro-Turanian thermophilic species, has been described as Cerambyx sartor from Northern Italy by Otto Friedrich Müller in 1766 [✩]. Ch. sartor Larvae develop in dead branches of many broadleaf trees and bushes, pupation occurs in wood in early spring. Life-cycle two years. Adults, active from May to early September, are diurnal and anthophilous (common on Apiaceae) [❖].
Body length: 6 - 10 mm Life cycle: 2 years Adults in: May - September Host plant: polyphagous in deciduous trees (Castanea, Fagus, Quercus, Ostrya, Ulmus, Celtis, Ficus, Juglans, Crataegus, Prunus, Ceratonia, Cercis, Cytisus, Gleditsia, Robinia, Elaeagnus, Pistacia, Cornus, Paliurus, Salix.) Distribution: Europe except North, Caucasus, Turkey, Near East, Iran
The depicted beetle was photographed in Kamenica nad Hronom environs (Nové Zámky district, Nitra region, South Slovakia) on July 12, 2020.Collected by Daniel Rydzi
[✩]
Müller O.F.:
Manipulus Insectorum Taurinensium.
Mélanges Philosophiques & Mathématiques de la Société Royale de Turin 3 (7) [1765]: 185-198, 1766. [download]
[❖]
Vitali F.:
Atlas of the Insects of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg: Coleoptera, Cerambycidae.
Ferrantia, Musée national d’histoire naturelle, Luxembourg 79: 1-208 [pages 53-55], 2018. [downloadSláma 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 168-169], 1998 [ISBN: 80-238-2627-1]. [download
[Photo © Daniel Rydzi]
| Subfamilia | Cerambycinae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Clytini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Chlorophorus Chevrolat, 1863 |
| Species | Chlorophorus sartor (O.F.Müller, 1766) |