Subfamilia: PRIONINAE / Tribus: AEGOSOMATINI
[Photo © Sergey N. Ivanov]
Aegosoma ivanovi, a species known so far only from Russian Far East (but probably also occurring in adjacent areas of China and North Korea), has been described from Merkushovka (Меркушёвка) village environs by Mikhail Leontievich Danilevsky in 2011 [✱]. The biology of the species is not yet known, but it will probably be analogous to related taxa of the genus Aegosoma (i.e. several years of larval development in dead wood, especially deciduous but also coniferous trees). Adults are often attracted by light (type locality) in July and early August [✮].
Body length: ♂♂ 35.5 - 46 mm / ♀♀ 38 - 45 mm Life cycle: 2 - 3 years Adults in: July - August Host plant: probably polyphagous in deciduous/coniferous trees Distribution: Russian Far East (Primorsky Krai)
The depicted mounted specimens (paratypes; 45-46 mm) were attracted to light in forests 3 km E Merkushovka (Меркушёвка) village (N44°22′23″ E132°50′34″; ca 160 m a.s.l., Chernigovsky District, Primorsky Krai, Far Eastern federal district, Russia) on July 28-30, 2011.Collected by Sergey N. Ivanov
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Danilevsky M.L.:
A new species of the genus Aegosoma Audinet-Serville, 1832 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) from the Russian Far East with the notes on allied species.
Far Eastern Entomologist 238: 1-10, 2011. [download]
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Danilevsky M.L.:
Longicorn beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycoidea) of Russia and adjacent countries. Part 1.
Higher School Consulting, Moscow 1: 522pp [pages 36-37], 2014. [downloadDo C.:
Genus Aegosoma Audinet-Serville, 1832, with description of a new species from Vietnam (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Prioninae).
Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology 18: 233-237, 2015. [download
[Photo © Sergey N. Ivanov]
| Subfamilia | Prioninae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Aegosomatini Thomson, 1861 |
| Genus | Aegosoma Audinet-Serville, 1832 |
| Species | Aegosoma ivanovi Danilevsky, 2011 |