ssp. reclinatum Kraatz, 1892
Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: DORCADIONINI
[Photo © Photo © David Navrátil & 8K postprocessing M.Hoskovec, click on the picture for 4K resolution]
Dorcadion (Cribridorcadion) equestre was described from Southern Russia as Cerambyx equestis by Erich Laxmann in 1770 [❖]. Its wide distributed subspecies D. equestre reclinatum, known from Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, North Macedonia, Turkey, and Serbia & Montenegro, has been described from "Balkan" as Dorcadion equestre var. reclinatum by Gustav Kraatz in 1892 [✧]. D. equestre reclinatum differs from the nominotypical subspecies occuring in Russia and Ukraine, among others and above all by the absence of a dorsal rib in the basal part of the elytra [▽].
Body length: ♂♂ 13.4 - 19.0 mm / ♀♀ 15.1 - 21.7 mm Life cycle: 1 year Adults in: April - June Host plant: roots of grasses (Poaceae) Distribution: Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, North Macedonia, Turkey, Serbia & Montenegro
The mounted beetles were collected in Malo Cersko (Мало Церско) village environs (Kičevo Municipality, North Macedonia) in May 9, 2009. The depicted living beetle was collected in Northern Greece.Collected by I.Boščík and P.Jelínek
[❖]
Laxmann E.:
Novae Insectorum species.
Novi commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae 14 (1): 593-604, 1770. [download]
[✧]
Kraatz G.:
Die Varietäten des Dorcadion equestre Laxman.
Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift, Berlin 36 (1): 173-174, 1892. [download[▽]
Pesarini C. and Sabbadini A.:
Ricerche sui Dorcadionini di Grecia IV. Le specie della Macedonia e della Tracia (Coleoptera Cerambycidae).
Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milano 151 (2): 179-216, 2010. [download
Dorcadion equestre reclinatum ♂ [Photo © P.Jelínek]
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Dorcadionini Swainson, 1840 |
| Genus | Dorcadion Dalman, 1817 |
| Subgenus | Cribridorcadion Pic, 1901 |
| Species | Dorcadion (Cribridorcadion) equestre (Laxmann, 1770) |
| Subspecies | Dorcadion (Cribridorcadion) equestre reclinatum Kraatz, 1892 |