Clytus (Clytus) lama Mulsant, 1847

Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE  /  Tribus: CLYTINI
Clytus lama
[Photo © Daniel Rydzi]

Clytus lama is relatively common European longhorn beetle, mainly occuring in mountain and sub-mountain coniferous forests. The larval development of this species takes place under the bark and in the wood of dead conifers (Picea, Abies, rarely in Larix). Life-cycle 2 years with pupation in spring in the wood in the hook-shaped pupal cell (see galleries in the fir wood) [▽].

Body length:7 - 15 mm
Life cycle:2 - 3 years
Adults in:May - July
Host plant:polyphagous in coniferous trees (Picea, Abies, Larix)
Distribution: Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Corsica, Croatia, Czechia (Bohemia, Moravia), France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine


The depicted living beetles were: (DR) - found in in Podbanské environs (Pribylina, Vysoké Tatry Mts., Liptovský Mikuláš district, Žilina region, Slovakia) on July 29, 2020; (MP) - reared from larva found in a dead Norway spruce (Picea abies) in Křivoklátsko Protected Landscape Area (Central Bohemia, Czechia) in winter 2021; (MH) - reared from larva collected in a dead spruce (Picea abies) branch in Bělečko village environs (Býšť, Pardubice district, Pardubice region, East Bohemia, Czechia) on May 9, 2021.

Collected by Daniel Rydzi, Miroslav Polcar and David Navrátil


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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 179-180], 1998 [ISBN: 80-238-2627-1]. [download pdf icon]


Clytus lama
Clytus lama
Clytus lama
[Photo © Milan Lovětínský]
Clytus lama
[Photo © Daniel Rydzi]
Clytus lama
[Photo © Michal Hoskovec]


 
SubfamiliaCerambycinae Latreille, 1802
TribusClytini Mulsant, 1839
GenusClytus Laicharting, 1784
SubgenusClytus Laicharting, 1784
SpeciesClytus (Clytus) lama Mulsant, 1847