Pogonocherus (Pogonocherus) perroudi Mulsant, 1839
ssp. perroudi Mulsant, 1839

Subfamilia: LAMIINAE  /  Tribus: POGONOCHERINI
Pogonocherus perroudi perroudi


[Photo © David Navrátil, click on the picture for 4K resolution]

Pogonocherus perroudi, a broadly distributed Mediterranenan species, has been described from Bordeaux environs (France) by Étienne Mulsant in 1839 [✮]. Larvae develop under the bark of thinner branches, the tops of weakened or uprooted trees, in the lower naturally dying branches of living pine trees.

Body length:4 - 8 mm
Life cycle:1 - 2 years
Adults in:April - August
Host plant:dying pine (Pinus) branches (P. halepensis, P. nigra, P. pinaster, P. salzmanni)
Distribution:Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Corsica, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Morocco, Sardinia, Sicily, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey


The mounted specimebs were reared from a larvae found in a dead Austrian pine (Pinus nigra) twigs collected 3 km NW of Novi Vinodolski (166 m a.s.l., Primorje-Gorski kotar county, Croatia) on May 23, 2014. The depicted living beetles were reared from a larvae found in a dead pine (Pinus sp.) twigs collected in Samos island (Greece) and in Croatia.

Collected by David Navrátil, Roman Rejzek and Petr Jelínek


[✮]
Mulsant E.:
Histoire Naturelle des Coléoptères de France. Longicornes.
Paris, Maison: vii-xii + 304pp, 1839. [download pdf icon]

Pogonocherus perroudi perroudi
Pogonocherus perroudi perroudi
Pogonocherus perroudi perroudi
Pogonocherus perroudi perroudi
Pogonocherus perroudi perroudi
Pogonocherus perroudi perroudi
[Photo © Daniel Rydzi]
Pogonocherus perroudi perroudi
Pogonocherus perroudi perroudi
Pogonocherus perroudi perroudi
[Photo © Petr Jelínek]


 
SubfamiliaLamiinae Latreille, 1825
TribusPogonocherini Mulsant, 1839
GenusPogonocherus Dejean, 1821
SubgenusPogonocherus Dejean, 1821
SpeciesPogonocherus (Pogonocherus) perroudi Mulsant, 1839
SubspeciesPogonocherus (Pogonocherus) perroudi perroudi Mulsant, 1839