[= Echinocerus scalaris (Brullé, 1833)]
[= Paraplagionotus scalaris (Brullé, 1833)]
[= Plagionotus scalaris (Brullé, 1833)]
[= Plagionotus siculus (Castelnau de Laporte et Gory, 1841)]
Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE / Tribus: CLYTINI
[Photo © David Navrátil, click on the picture for 4K resolution]
Neoplagionotus scalaris, a Mediterranean species known from Balcan peninsula, Italy, North Africa and Turkey, has been described from Peloponnese (Greece) as Clytus scalaris by Auguste Gaspard Brullé in 1833 [▽]. As with other species of the genus Neoplagionotus, N. scalaris larvae develop in the stems and roots of the mallows (Malva silvestris and Lavatera stenopetala) [✧][❖]. Adults, active from late April to June, are diurnal and anthophilous.
Body length: 11 - 15 mm Life cycle: 1 year Adults in: April - June Host plant: larvae feed in roots of Malvaceae (Malva silvestris and Lavatera stenopetala) Distribution: Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, North Macedonia, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey
The mounted beetles were collected in Arachova Arachova (Αράχοβα) village environs (N38°29′36″ E22°32′56″; 1080-1200 m a.s.l., Distomo-Arachova-Antikyra municipality, Boeotia, Central Greece region, Greece) on May 23-25, 2018. The depicted living specimen was photographed in Panagitsa (Παναγίτσα) village environs (Tripoli municipality, Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece) on May 26, 2021.Collected by David Navrátil and Daniel Rydzi
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Brullé A.G.:
Expédition scientifique de Morée. Section des Sciences Physiques. Tome III. - 1.re Partie. Zoologie. Deuxième Section. - Des animaux articulés.
F. G. Levrault, Paris 3 (1/2): 400pp, 1832-1836. [download]
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Chavanon G.:
Deuxième contribution à la connaissance des Cerambycidae du Maroc Oriental.
L'Entomologiste 55 (4): 167-174, 1999. [download[❖]
Trócoli S.:
Actualización del catálogo de Longicornios de Marruecos / Actualisation du catalogue des Longicornes du Maroc (Parte III / Partie III : Cerambycidae : Cerambycinae).
Revue de l'Association Roussillonnaise d'Entomologie (R.A.R.E.) 28 (3): 143–185, 2019. [download
[Photo © Daniel Rydzi]
| Subfamilia | Cerambycinae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Clytini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Neoplagionotus Kasatkin, 2005 |
| Species | Neoplagionotus scalaris (Brullé, 1833) |