Polyzonus (Polyzonus) fasciatus (Fabricius, 1781)

Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE  /  Tribus: CALLICHROMATINI

Polyzonus fasciatus
[Photo © Lech Kruszelnicki]


This striking species of Callichromatini tribe, sporadically distributed from the Korean peninsula through Northern China and Mongolia to the Eastern part of the Russian Federation, was described by Johann Christian Fabricius as Saperda fasciata as early as 1781 [❖]. The species inhabits forest-steppe habitats and is ecologically associated with wild roses (Rosa maximowicziana, R. ragosa, R. dahurica). The larvae of P. fasciatus develop in viable shoots of rose shrubs usually growing in xerothermic localities. Adults require supplementary feeding and can be found on flowers (Apiaceae, Rosaceae, Compositae, etc.) [✧].

Body length:14 - 20 mm
Life cycle:2 - 3 years
Adults in:July - September
Host plant:wild roses (Rosa maximowicziana, R. ragosa, R. dahurica)
Distribution:Russia, Mongolia, China, Korea


The depicted beetles were collected in Amarbajasgałant Child environs (Selenge province/Сэлэнгэ аймаг, Mongolia) on August 10, 2010.

Collected by Jerzy Zygmunt


[❖]
Fabricius J.C.:
Species insectorum exhibentes eorum differentias specificas, synonyma auctorum, loca natalia, metamorphosin adiectis observationibus, descriptionibus.
Hamburgi et Kilonii: Impensis Carol Ernest Bohnii 1: 552pp [page 232], 1781 [download pdf icon]

Skale A.: 2018
Zur Taxonomie, Synonymie und Faunistik der Callichromatini der orientalischen und indoaustralischen Region (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Callichromatini). Bemerkungen zur Gattung Polyzonus Dejean, 1835: Teil 1
Vernate 37: 325-393, 2018. [download pdf icon]

Bentanachs C.J.:
Revisión del género Polyzonus Dejean, 1835 y géneros afines (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Callichromatini)
Les Cahiers Magellanes 8: 1-100, 2012.

[✧]
Cherepanov A.I.:
Cerambycidae of Northern Asia, Volume 2 - Cerambycinae Part I.
Amerind Publishing, New Delhi: 304pp [pages 140-148], 1988. [download pdf icon]



 
SubfamiliaCerambycinae Latreille, 1802
TribusCallichromatini Blanchard, 1845
GenusPolyzonus Laporte de Castelnau, 1840
SubgenusPolyzonus Laporte de Castelnau, 1840
SpeciesPolyzonus (Polyzonus) fasciatus (Fabricius, 1781)