[= Tetrops (Tetrops) praeustus peterkai Skořepa, 2020]
Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: TETROPINI
[Photo © David Navrátil, click on the picture for 4K resolution]
Tetrops peterkai, a new Central-Eauropean species known from Czechia, Slovakia, Austria and Germany, has been described according series of many specimens from Central Europe (holotype from Moravia) by Lukáš Skořepa in 2020 [▽]. Differential diagnosis of this interesting in Frangula alnus developing species, which specimens have been confused with T. praeustus praeustus probably for decades until now, is also included in the description paper. Maxim A. Lazarev demoted this clearly and well distinguished taxon to the level of a subspecies without any logical and scientifically based explanation in 2024 [✳], therefore the authors of the portal consider the species still valid.
Tetrops praeustus species cluster comprises several very similar species and subspecies (T. praeustus praeustus (Linnaeus, 1758); T. gilvipes (Faldermann, 1837); T. praeustus praetermitus Sláma, 2020 [❖]; T. praeustus peterkai Skořepa, 2020) that are thanks to similar bionomy and overal look often confused or misidentified. Valuable information on the taxonomy of Central European Tetrops praeusta-cluster can be found in the works of Polish (Jacek Kurzawa, Marek Miłkowski, and Jerzy M. Gutowski, 2020) and German colleagues (Ralf W. Hass and Andreas Pütz, 2022)[✮][✳].
According to the authors of the website, the entire cluster of these taxa, in which the diversity of habits of adults is also influenced geographically, needs a comprehensive revision using not only classical morphology in larvae and adults but also DNA analysis.
Body length: ♂♂ 3.1 - 5.0 mm / ♀♀ 2.9 - 5.5 mm Life cycle: 1 - 2 years Adults in: April - July Host plant: development reported only from alder buckthorn (Frangula alnus) Distribution: Czechia, Slovakia, Austria, Germany
The depicted mounted specimens were beaten from Frangula alnus branches in Boršov u Litětin Natural Monument environs (Dolní Roveň - Litětiny, Pardubice district, Pardubice region, Eastern Bohemia, Czechia) on May 17, 2003 (♂) and May 26, 2001, respectively (♀).Collected by David Navrátil
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Skořepa L.:
New species of the genus Tetrops Kirby, 1826 in Kirby & Spence 1826 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) from Central Europe.
Humanity space - International Almanac 9 (5): 563-570, 2020. [download]
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Lazarev M.:
Taxonomic notes on longhorned beetles with the descriptions of several new taxa (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Humanity space International almanac 13 (1): 21-38, 2024. [download[❖]
Sláma M.E.F.:
A new species of the genus Tetrops Kirby, 1826 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) from Bohemia.
Humanity space - International Almanac 9 (5): 571-576, 2020. [download[✮]
Kurzawa J., Miłkowski M., Gutowski J.M.:
Nowe dane o taksonomii i rozmieszczeniu Tetrops gilvipes ssp. adlbaueri Lazarev, 2012 oraz Tetrops praeustus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
[ New data about taxonomy and distribution of Tetrops gilvipes ssp. adlbaueri Lazarev, 2012 and Tetrops praeustus (Linnaeus, 1758). ]
Rocznik Muzeum Górnośląskiego w Bytomiu, Przyroda 26: 1–20, 2020. [download[✳]
Hass R.W. and Pütz A.:
Über einige mitteleuropäische Taxa der Gattung Tetrops Kirby, 1826 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
[ On some central European taxa of genus Tetrops Kirby, 1826 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). ]
Entomologische Nachrichten und Berichte 66: 257-264, 2022/23. [downloadSláma M.E.F.:
Tesaříci Rodu Tetrops střední Evropy.
[ Cerambycidae of the genus Tetrops of Central Europe. ]
Entomofauna Carpathica 32 (2): 12-18, 2020. [download
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Tetropini Portevin, 1927 |
| Genus | Tetrops Kirby, 1826 |
| Subgenus | Tetrops Kirby, 1826 |
| Subgenus | Tetrops (Tetrops) praeustus |
| Subspecies | Tetrops (Tetrops) praeustus peterkai Skořepa, 2020 |