Subfamilia: LEPTURINAE / Tribus: RHAGIINI
[Photo © Milan Lovětínský]
Pachyta quadrimaculata, a relatively common Palaearctic boreomontanne species with large area of occurence from Europe to North China, has been described from "Europa" as Leptura quadrimaculata by Carl Linné in 1758 [❖]. P. quadrimaculata larvae develop in the dead roots of coniferous trees (Picea, Pinus). Larvae first feed subcortically and then enter the sapwood, leaving the roots after the third overwintering. Pupation occurs in pupal cells in the soil during May-June, life cycle three years. Adults, active from June to August, are diurnal and anthophilous [✧][✳].
Body length: 10 - 22 mm Life cycle: 3 years Adults in: June - August Host plant: coniferous trees (Picea, Pinus) Distribution: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, North China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia
The depicted beetle was collected on flowers (Apiaceae) in Bezručovo údolí (Krušné hory/Ore Mts., Chomutov district, Ústí nad Labem Region, North Bohemia, Czechia) on June 26, 2022.Collected by Miroslav Polcar
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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: 824pp [page 397], 1758. [download]
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Sláma M.E.F.:
Tesaříkovití – Cerambycidae České republiky a Slovenské republiky / Cerambycidae of the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic.
Milan Sláma private printing, Krhanice, 383pp [page 200], 1998 [ISBN: 80-238-2627-1]. [download[✳]
Danilevsky M.L.:
Longicorn beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycoidea) of Russia and adjacent countries. Part 1.
Higher School Consulting, Moscow, 550pp [page 109], 2014. [download
[Photo © Milan Lovětínský]
[Photo © Milan Lovětínský]
| Subfamilia | Lepturinae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Rhagiini Kirby, 1837 |
| Genus | Pachyta Dejean, 1821 |
| Species | Pachyta quadrimaculata (Linnaeus, 1758) |