[= Cleroclytus baeckmanni Okunev, 1933]
[= Cleroclytus grandiculus Plavilstshikov, 1940]
Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE / Tribus: TILLOMORPHINI
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Cleroclytus gracilis, a Central-Asian taxon of interesting tribe Tillomorphini, has been described from Zarafshan Range (Tajikistan) as by Bassili Evgrafovitch Jakovlev in 1900 [▽]. C. gracilis was included by Maxim Lazarev in the subgenus Obiqueclitus established by him in 2014 [❖]. The species is polyphagous and its larvae feed subcortically on recently dead twigs or branches of various decidouos trees and shrubs. Larva overwinters and then it pupates in the wood in the following spring, sometimes the adults overwinters. The adults, active from April to June, are diurnal and anthophilous.
Body length: ♂♂ 5–11 mm / ♀♀ 7–12 mm Life cycle: 1–2 years Adults in: April – June Host plant: polyphagous in deciduous trees and shrubs Distribution: Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Depicted beetles were collected in Hisar State Reserve (N38°52.442′ E67°18.388′; 1653 m a.s.l., Hisar Range, Kashkadarya region, Uzbekistan) on May 11–13, 2019. A new species for Uzbekistan.Collected by Walter Grosser
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Jakovlev B.E.:
Révision des Cleroclytus (Kraatz) (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae)..
Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae, St. Petersbourg 34 (3-4): 656-665, 1900. [download]
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Lazarev M.A.:
Taxonomy notes (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Humanity space International almanac 3 (2): 272-285, 2014. [download[✧]
Kadyrov A.K., Karpiński L., Szczepański W.T., Taszakowski A. and Walczak M.:
New data on distribution, biology, and ecology of longhorn beetles from the area of west Tajikistan (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
ZooKeys 606: 41-64, 2016. [downloadDanilevsky M.L.:
Review of the genus Cleroclytus Kraatz, 1884 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Russian Entomological Journal 10 (2): 153-157, 2001. [download
| Subfamilia | Cerambycinae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Tillomorphini Lacordaire, 1869 |
| Genus | Cleroclytus Kraatz, 1884 |
| Subgenus | Obliqueclytus Lazarev, 2014 |
| Species | Cleroclytus (Obliqueclytus) gracilis Jakovlev, 1900 |