ssp. humeralis (Schaller, 1783)
[= Leptura suturalis Fabricius, 1787]
[= Leptura 4guttata Fabricius, 1787]
[= Leptura quadrinotata Gmelin, 1790]
[= Leptura Schalleri Gmelin, 1790]
Subfamilia: LEPTURINAE / Tribus: CARILIINI
[Photo © Milan Lovětínský]
Cortodera humeralis humeralis, a nominoctypical subspecies occuring in entire Europe except North and Turkey, is a common Euro-Anatolian taxon of xerothermic oak stands and forest-steppe habitats. The larvae, developing in the surface layer of the soil on the decaying remains (branches, roots, acorns...) of deciduous trees and shrubs, actively move in the soil in search of food. Larvae overwinter in pupal cells built in the soil during autumn and pupate in the spring; life-cycle 1 year. Adults, active from end of April to June, are diurnal and anthophilous. They can be collected in larger number by beating branches of oaks and blosssoming hawthorns [✧][❖].
Cortodera humeralis has been described as Leptura humeralis from Halle environs (Germany) by Johann Gottlob Schaller in 1783 [❖].
Body length: 7 - 12 mm Life cycle: 1 year Adults in: May - June Host plant: larvae live in surface soil layer under deciduous trees and feed in buried twig fragments, shallow dead roots etc. Distribution: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine, Turkey
The depicted beetles were beaten from a blossoming hawthorn (Crataegus) in Žloukovice village environs (Beroun district, Central Bohemia, Czechia) on May 21, 2021.Collected by Miroslav Polcar
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Schaller J.G.:
Neue Insekten beschrieben.
Schriften der naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Halle 1: 217-328, 1783. [download]
[✧]
Danilevsky M.L.:
Longicorn beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycoidea) of Russia and adjacent countries. Part 1.
Higher School Consulting, Moscow, 550pp [pages 159-160], 2014. [download[❖]
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 214-215], 1998 [ISBN: 80-238-2627-1]. [download
[Photo © Milan Lovětínský]
[Photo © Milan Lovětínský]
| Subfamilia | Lepturinae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Cariliini Zamoroka, 2022 |
| Genus | Cortodera Mulsant, 1863 |
| Species | Cortodera humeralis (Schaller, 1783) |
| Subspecies | Cortodera humeralis humeralis (Schaller, 1783) |