Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE / Tribus: DEILINI
[Photo © David Navrátil, click on the picture for 4K resolution]
Deilus fugax, a species with large area of occurence (Europe except North, North Africa, Near East, Asia Minor), has been described form Provence as Callidium fugax by Guillaume-Antoine Olivier in 1790 [▽]. D. fugax larvae develop in thin twigs (1-2 cm) of shrubs from the Fabaceae family. The larvae first feed subcorticaly, later entering the wood, where they create pupal cells. The entrance/exit holes larvae clogg by frass. Life cycle from one to three years, the lenght of the development period depends on climatic conditions at the locality. Adults, active from May to July, are diurnal and can be found on the various flowers or beaten from the host plants [✧].
Body length: 6 – 11 mm Life cycle: 2 – 3 years Adults in: March - September Host plant: polyphagous in Fabaceae shrubs (Cytisus, Spartium, Calytocome, Genista, Laburnum etc.) Distribution: Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Corsica, Croatia, Czechia, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
The depicted mounted beetles were collected in: ♂ – Sidirokastro (Σιδηρόκαστρο) village environs (N36°46′ E22°25′; 500 m a.s.l., Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece) on May 5, 2009; ♀ – Umag environs (Istria county, Croatia) on June 7, 1994. The living specimen was reared from larva found in Calicotome twig in Hammamet (حمامات) environs (Nabeul Governorate, Tunisia) in 2019.Collected by David Navrátil, Milan Kovařík and Roman Rejzek
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Olivier G.-A.:
Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire Naturelle. Insectes.
Panckoucke Libraire, Paris 5 (1): 368pp, 1790. [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 [page 107-108], 1998 [ISBN: 80-238-2627-1]. [download
[Photo © Daniel Rydzi]
[Photo © Daniel Rydzi]
| Subfamilia | Cerambycinae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Deilini Faimaire, 1864 |
| Genus | Deilus Audinet-Serville, 1834 |
| Species | Deilus fugax (Olivier, 1790) |