Xylotrechus arvicola arvicola (original) (raw)

Xylotrechus (Xylotrechus) arvicola (Olivier, 1795)
ssp. arvicola (Olivier, 1795)

Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE / Tribus: CLYTINI

[Photo © Daniel Rydzi]

Xylotrechus arvicola is a broadly distributed species (Europe, Caucasus, Transcaucasia, North Africa, Near East) and is quite common in Central Europe. It is broadly polyphagous in deciduous trees (Quercus, Carpinus, Fagus, Malus, Ulmus, Crataegus, Juglans,Populus, Tilia, Morus, Sorbus, Prunus, etc.). Larvae feed in dead wood of the hosts.

Xylotrechus arvicola has been described from France as Callidium arvicola by Guillaume-Antoine Olivier in 1800 [❖].

Body length:	8 – 20 mm
Life cycle:	2 years
Adults in:	May – August
Host plant:	polyphagous in deciduous trees
Distribution:	Europe, Russia, Caucasus, North Kazakhstan, Transcaucasia, Turkey, Near East, North Africa

The mounted specimens were: ♂ – reared from larvae foud in Rozdrojovice (Brno dam) environs (Brno-Country district, South Moravia, Czechia) on May 13, 2018; ♀ – collected in Comps-sur-Artuby environs (N43°43′45″ E06°27′35″; 990 m a.s.l., Var department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, France) on July 12-21, 2016.

The living specimens were: (DR) – collected in Argelès-sur-Mer environs (Pyrénées-Orientales department, Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées, France) on June 20, 2018; (PJ) – reared from larvae collected in a relatively compact dead wood of trunks and thick branches of hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) in Nižbor environs (Beroun distrcit, Central Bohemia, Czechia) in February 2013.

Collected by David Navrátil, Daniel Rydzi and Petr Jelínek

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Olivier G.-A.:
Entomologie ou Histoire Naturelle des Insectes, avec leurs caractères génériques et spécifiques, leur description, leur synonymie et leur figure enluminée.
Coléoptères, Imprimerie de Lanneau, Paris 4: 1-519, 75 pls. Pages 1-124 (1795); 125-492 (1800). [download ]

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 161-163], 1998 [ISBN: 80-238-2627-1]. [download ]

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

[Photo © Daniel Rydzi]

[Photo © Petr Jelínek]