Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: DORCADIONINI
Dorcadion nikolaevi ♂ [Photo © Petr Jelínek]
Dorcadion nikolaevi, an endemic Dorcadion to Eastern Kazakhstan, has been described from Lepsy river valley by Mikhail Danilevsky in 1995 [✧]. D. nikolaevi, occuring only in the central part of the northern slopes of Dzungarian Alatau, inhabits piedmont areas between 600–700 m a.s.l. The larvae feed on the roots of various grass species (Poaceae). The adults are active mostly from the end of April to the second half of May [❖]
Body length: ♂♂ 12.6 - 16 mm / ♀♀ 14.5 - 17 mm Life cycle: 1 year Adults in: late April - late May Host plant: roots of various grass species (Poaceae) Distribution: an endemic species to Eastern Kazakhstan
The depicted beetles were collected 9 km NE of Koylyk (Қойлық) village (N45°42′26″ E80°18′49″; 550 m a.s.l., Sarkand district, Almaty region, Kazakhstan) on May 1, 2015.Collected by Petr Jelínek
[✧]
Danilevsky M.L.:
New Dorcadion Dalman, 1817 from Kazakhstan (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Lambillionea 95 (3) 2: 420-428, 1995. [download]
[❖]
Toropov S.A., Milko D.A.:
Longhorns of the tribe Dorcadionini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) of Kazakhstan and Middle Asia.
SatEnto, Bishkek, 103pp, 2013. [downloadKarpiński L., Szczepański W.T., Plewa R., Walczak M., Hilszczański J., Kruszelnicki L., Łoś K., Jaworski T., Bidas M., Tarwacki G.:
New data on the distribution, biology and ecology of the longhorn beetles from the area of South and East Kazakhstan (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae)
ZooKeys 805: 59–126 (2018). [download
Dorcadion nikolaevi ♂ [Photo © Petr Jelínek]
Dorcadion nikolaevi ♀ [Photo © Petr Jelínek]
Dorcadion nikolaevi ♀ [Photo © Petr Jelínek]
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Dorcadionini Swainson, 1840 |
| Genus | Dorcadion Dalman, 1817 |
| Subgenus | Acutodorcadion Danilevsky, Kasatkin & Rubenian, 2004 |
| Species | Dorcadion (Acutodorcadion) nikolaevi Danilevsky, 1995 |