Tetropium gabrieli is a species distributed in Central Europe and some adjacent areas like France, Germany, Great Britain, and Denmark. It develops in European larch (Larix decidua). Larvae feed under or in the thick bark of diseased or dying trees, in standing or fallen trunks and in thick branches. Tetropium gabrieli is a crepuscular nocturnal species.

In Central Europe, it is spreading faster and faster in planted larch woods throughout the territory after World War II. In addition to technical damage, it causes accelerated attack of the white part of the wood by fungal infections. It is primarily a secondary pest, but it is certain that it also participates as a physiological pest in further weakening and death of trees and is currently one of the common and serious European larch pests [✧][❖].

Despite its common occurrence in Central Europe, T. gabrieli was described relatively late, only in 1905 by Julius Weise [✩].

Body length:	8 - 18 mm
Life cycle:	1 year
Adults in:	May - August
Host plant:	European larch (Larix decidua)
Distribution:	Austria, Belgia, Belarus, Russia, Czechia, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Sweden, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine

The depicted mounted specimen was collected in Marktleuthen environs (Wunsiedel im Fichtelgebirge district, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany) in spring 2003.

Collected by U.Eitschberger

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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 [pages 78-79], 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 [pages 375-376], 2014. [download ]

[✩]
Weise J.:
Tetropium Gabrieli Weise n. sp..
Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift, Berlin 1905 (1): 136. [download ]