Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: DORCADIONINI
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Iberodorcadion becerrae, an endemic species occuring in North and Central part of Spain, has been described from Soria province (Castile and León) as Dorcadion Becerræ by Jorge Lauffer in 1901 [❖]. Some interesting data about biology of the Iberodorcadion becerrae can be found in paper by Alberto del Saz Fucho from 2013 [▿]
Body length: 10 - 13 mm Life cycle: 1 - 2 years Adults in: April - June Host plant: roots of grasses - Poaceae (Dactylis glomerata hispanica, Phalaris coerulencens, Festuca sp., etc.) Distribution: an endemic species to North and Central part of Spain (La Rioja, Aragón, Castile and León, Castilla-La Mancha) [✧][✮]
Depicted mounted beetles were collected in Numancia ancient settlement ruins environs close to the village of Garray (Soria province, Castile and León, Spain) on May 9, 1993.Collected by Antonio Verdugo Dactylis glomerata hispanica (Roth) Nyman (Saz, 2007b), Festuca sp. (Vives, 2001), Phalaris coerulencens
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Lauffer J.:
Notas críticas sobre el género Dorcadion Dalm.
Boletín de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural 1: 88-98, 1901. [download]
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del Saz Fucho A.:
Notas sobre el ciclo biológico de los Iberodorcadion Breuning, 1943 de la Península Ibérica (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae).
Asociación Entomológica de Asturias 6 (1): 1-17, 2013. [download[✧]
Tomé Díez M.:
Nuevos datos biogeográficos sobre Dorcadion (Iberodorcadion) becerrae Lauffer, 1901 en la Península Ibérica.
Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 44: 375-378, 2009. [download[✮] Breuning S.:
Revision der Dorcadionini (Col. Ceramb.)
Abhandlungen und Berichte aus dem staatlichen Museum für Tierkunde in Dresden 27: 666pp [pagea 612-615], 1962. [downloaddel Saz Fucho A., Zapata De La Vega J.L. and Simón Sorli A.:
Datos corológicos de los ejemplares del género Iberodorcadion Breuning, 1943 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) de la colección del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales de Madrid, España.
Revista gaditana de Entomología 4 (1): 21-48, 2013. [download
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Dorcadionini Swainson, 1840 |
| Genus | Iberodorcadion Breuning, 1943 |
| Subgenus | Hispanodorcadion Vives, 1976 |
| Species | Iberodorcadion (Hispanodorcadion) becerrae (Lauffer, 1901) |