ssp. caucasicus Ganglbauer, 1887
Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: ACANTHOCININI
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Leiopus nebulosus, a common highly variable European species, has been described from Gotland (Sweden) as Cerambyx nebulosus by Carl Linné in 1758 [▽]. Its endemic Caucaso-Anatolian subspecies L. nebulosus caucasicus, occuring in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Russia: Southern Federal district and Turkey, has been described as Liopus caucasicus from Tbilisi (Georgia) environs by Ludwig Ganglbauer in 1887 [✮]. It is currently considered a subspecies of L. nebulosus [❖]. Biology of L. nebulosus caucasicus is very similar to the nominotypical subspecies.
Body length: 5 - 10 mm Life cycle: 1 - 2 years Adults in: April - August Host plant: polyphagous on deciduous trees (Carpinus, Quercus, Castanea, Fagus, Alnus, Prunus) Distribution: an endemic subspecies to the Caucasus Mts. (Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Russia: Southern Federal district, Turkey)
Depicted male beetles were beaten from dead broadlaf tree branches in Kamennomostsky (Каменномо́стский) environs (Maykopsky district, Republic of Adygea, North Caucasus, Southern Federal district, Russia) on July 5-20, 1998.Collected by our friend Martin Švarc
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Linné C.:
Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis.
Systema naturae (Editio 10) Laur. Salvius. Holmiae. 1: iii + 824 pp, 1758. [download]
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Ganglbauer L.:
Ein neuer Liopus aus dem Kaukasus..
Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae, St. Petersbourg 21 (1-2): 25., 1887. [download[❖]
Wallin H., Nylander U. and Kvamme T.:
Two sibling species of Leiopus Audinet-Serville, 1835 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from Europe: L. nebulosus (Linnaeus, 1758) and L. linnei sp. nov.
Zootaxa 2010: 31-45, 2009. [download[✳]
Özdikmen H. & Laz B.:
Updated feeding preferences of Leiopus Audinet-Serville species in Turkey with new host plants for endemic longicorn beetle Leiopus syriacus abieticola Sama & Rapuzzi (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae).
Munis Entomology & Zoology 17 (1): 301-315, 2022. [download
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Acanthocinini Blanchard, 1845 |
| Genus | Leiopus Audinet-Serville, 1835 |
| Subgenus | Leiopus Audinet-Serville, 1835 |
| Species | Leiopus (Leiopus) nebulosus (Linnaeus, 1758) |
| Subspecies | Leiopus (Leiopus) nebulosus caucasicus Ganglbauer, 1887 |