Lamiomimus gottschei, a striking species occuring in Russian Far East, China and Korea, has been described from Korea
by Hermann Julius Kolbe in 1886 [▽]. L. gottschei, inhabiting North-East Asian deciduous forest zone, develop in roots and basal (and underground)
parts of trunks of dying/dead deciduous trees (Quercus, Betula, Salix, etc.).
Larvae feed subcortically creating longitudinal galleries filled with coarse fibrous frass and impressed in the sawpood.
After the third overwintering they create a pupal cell under the bark, completely lined by fibrous frass, and pupate.
Adults, active in summer (July - August), require maturation feeding on the host trees bark [✧].
| Body length: | 18 - 42 mm |
| Life cycle: | 3 years |
| Adults in: | July - September |
| Host plant: | polyphagous in deciduous trees (Quercus, Betula, Salix, etc.) |
| Distribution: | Russian Far East, China, Korea |
The depicted female beetle (35 mm) was collected in Kaymanovka (Каймановка) village environs
(N43°38.808′ E132°15.650′; Ussuriysky Urban Okrug, Primorsky Krai, Far Eastern Federal
District, Russia) on August 22, 2007.
Collected by Kirill V. Makarov
[▽]
Kolbe H.J.:
Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Coleopteren-Fauna Koreas, bearbeitet auf Grund der von Herr Dr. C. Gottsche während der Jahre 1883 und
1884 in Korea veranstaltelen Sammlung; nebst Bemerkungen über die zoogeographischen Verhältnisse dieses Faunengebiets und Unterungen
über einen Sinnesapparat im Gaumem von Misolampidiius morio.
Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin 52 (1): 139-240, 1886.
[download 
]
[✧]
Cherepanov A.I.:
Cerambycidae of Northern Asia, Volume 3 - Laminae Part I.
Amerind Publishing, New Delhi: 300pp [pages 241-247], 1990.
[download ]
