[= Criocephalus tristis (Fabricius, 1787)]
[= Criocephalus polonicus Motschulsky, 1845]
Subfamilia: SPONDYLIDINAE / Tribus: ASEMINI
[Photo © David Navrátil & 8K postprocessing M.Hoskovec]
Arhopalus ferus, a widespread (Europe, North Africa, Asia Minor, Near East, China) but relatively rare species, has been described from Bordeaux environs as Criocephalus Rusticus var. Ferus by Étienne Mulsant in 1839 [▽]. The biology of the species is practically identical to the sister but much more abundant taxon A. rusticus (Linnaeus, 1758), it is often possible to find larvae of both species in one pine trunk [❖][✶].
A. ferus is often misdetermined as A. rusticus (Linnaeus, 1758), which principally differs from this taxon in the more reddish and parallel-sided body, a furrow at each side of the pronotal disc and the deeply bilobed metatarsomere III [✧][*].
Body length: ♂♂ 9 - 25 mm / ♀♀ 14 - 27 mm Life cycle: 3 - 4 years Adults in: June - September Host plant: pines (Pinus spp.) Distribution: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Austria, Croatia, Czechia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, China, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Syria, Turkey
The depicted mounted beetles were collected in Primošten environs (Šibenik-Knin county, Dalmatia, Croatia) on July 18-21, 2011. The living specimen (taken in detail) has been reared from larva found in Pinus in Lebanon in spring 2016.Collected by David Navrátil and Tamás Németh
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Mulsant E.:
Histoire Naturelle des Coléoptères de France. Longicornes.
Paris, Maison: vii-xii + 304pp, 1839. [download]
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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 81-82], 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 368-369], 2014. [download[✧]
Vitali F.:
Atlas of the Insects of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg: Coleoptera, Cerambycidae.
Ferrantia, Musée national d’histoire naturelle, Luxembourg 79: 1-208 [pages 106-107], 2018. [download
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[Photo © Tamás Németh]
| Subfamilia | Spondylidinae Audinet-Serville, 1832 |
| Tribus | Asemini Thomson, 1860 |
| Genus | Arhopalus Audinet-Serville, 1834 |
| Species | Arhopalus ferus (Mulsant, 1839) |