[= Xylosteus gracilis Kraatz, 1873]
Subfamilia: LEPTURINAE / Tribus: XYLOSTEINI
[Photo © Lech Kruszelnicki]
Leptorhabdium illyricum, a rare species occuring in Balcan peninsula, has been described from Albania as Xylosteus illyricus by Gustav Kraatz in 1871 [▽].
L. illyricum host tree and biology of the preimaginal stages were unknown for a long time, but Pierpaolo Rapuzzi and Gianfranco Sama reported its larval development in the long dead wood of Fagus sylvatica in the presence of fungi and molds (from North Macedonia and Croatia) in 2012 [✧].
Body length: 10 - 16 mm Life cycle: 2 - 3 years Adults in: May - June Host plant: Fagus sylvatica (but preobably polyphagous in deciduous trees) Distribution: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece, North Macedonia, Slovenia
The depicted living specimen was photographed in Galičica National park (Ohrid, North Macedonia) in May 2013.Collected by Petr Jelínek
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Kraatz K.:
Zur Abbildung eines deutschen Pärchens von Xylosteus spinolae Friv.
Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 14 (3-4) [1870]: 413-415, 1871. [download]
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Rapuzzi P. and Sama G.:
Contributo alla conoscenza dei Cerambycidae di Albania (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Atti del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Trieste 55: 181-234, 2012. [download
[Photo © Petr Jelínek]
[Photo © Petr Jelínek]
| Subfamilia | Lepturinae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Xylosteini Reitter, 1913 |
| Genus | Leptorhabdium Kraatz, 1879 |
| Species | Leptorhabdium illyricum (Kraatz, 1870) |