ssp. varius (O.F.Müller, 1766)
Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE / Tribus: CLYTINI
[Photo © Daniel Rydzi]
Chlorophorus varius, a species with large distribution area from West Europe to Kazakhstan and West Siberia, has been described from North Italy as Leptura varia by Otto Friedrich Müller in 1766 [▽]. Larval development in the wood of dead deciduous trees and shrubs of various diameters (from a few to tens of centimeters). Larvae of the first instars feed subcortically, then enter and feed in the sapwood where also pupate in hook-shaped pupal cells. Life cycle 2 - 3 years. Adults, active from May to September, are diurnal and anthophilous [❖].
Body length: 8 - 15 mm Life cycle: 2 - 3 years Adults in: May - September Host plant: polyphagous in deciduous trees (Acer, Alnus, Castanea, Fraxinus, Morus, Crataegus, Populus, Robinia, Prunus, Salix, Spartium, Ulmus, Vitis etc.) Distribution: Europe except North, Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Turkey, Kazakhstan, West Siberia
The depicted beetles were photographed on flowers in Pouzdřany environs (Břeclav district, South Moravia, Czechia on August 14, 2017) and Kamenica nad Hronom environs (Nové Zámky district, Nitra region, Slovakia on July 12, 2020).Collected by Daniel Rydzi
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Müller O.F.:
Manipulus Insectorum Taurinensium.
Mélanges Philosophiques & Mathématiques de la Société Royale de Turin 3 (7) [1765]: 185-198, 1766. [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 170-171], 1998 [ISBN: 80-238-2627-1]. [download
[Photo © Daniel Rydzi]
| Subfamilia | Cerambycinae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Clytini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Chlorophorus Chevrolat, 1863 |
| Species | Chlorophorus varius (O.F.Müller, 1766) |
| Subspecies | Chlorophorus varius varius (O.F.Müller, 1766) |