[= Acmaeops marginata (Fabricius, 1781)]
[= Acmaeops bicoloripes Pic, 1933]
Subfamilia: LEPTURINAE / Tribus: CARILIINI
[Photo © David Navrátil & 8K postprocessing Michal Hoskovec]
Euracmaeops marginatus, a species of Palearctic forest zone with a large area of occurrence from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, belongs among the rarely collected and observed species due to the short cryptic lifespan of adults and the fact that it does not visit (in Europe) flowers. Larval development in the bark of trunks/thick branches of dead conifers. The larvae leave the trees and hide in the upper layer of the soil where they pupate at the end of the 2nd year of development. Biennial development, adults occur from mid-May to July (peak at the turn of May and June) on logs, sunlit standing trunks of dead/dying conifers and their branches. Swarming and mating take place in hot and stuffy weather, and beetles are also lured by charred standing trees [❖][✧].
Euracmaeops septentrionis was described from Norway as Leptura marginata by Johann Christian Fabricius in 1781 [▽]. Currently, this taxon is classified in the genus Euracmaeops Danilevsky, 2014 and subgenus Euracmaeops Danilevsky, 2014, but this view of the higher taxonomy of the Euracmaeops/Acmaeops species cluster is not accepted by all Cerambycidologists and remains debatable [✳][✧].
Body length: ♂♂ 7.0 - 10.2 mm / ♀♀ 9.0 - 11.5 mm Life cycle: 2 years Adults in: May - July Host plant: coniferous trees (especially Pinus, rare in Picea) Distribution: Europe, Russia (including Siberia and Far East), Kazakhstan, Mongolia, North China, Turkey
The mounted beetles were collected in Nová Ves environs (Rychnov nad Kněžnou district, Hradec Králové region, Czechia) on June 1, 1973.Collected by J.Brokeš, K.Poláček and Miroslav Fiala
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Danilevsky M.L.:
Longicorn beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycoidea) of Russia and adjacent countries. Part 1.
Higher School Consulting, Moscow, 550pp [page 147-178], 2014. [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 210-211], 1998 [ISBN: 80-238-2627-1]. [download[▽]
Fabricius J.C.:
Species insectorum exhibentes eorum differentias specificas, synonyma auctorum, loca natalia, metamorphosin adiectis observationibus, descriptionibus.
Hamburgi et Kilonii: Impensis Carol Ernest Bohnii 1: 552pp [page 247], 1781. [download[✳]
Özdikmen H.:
Proposition of a new subgenus of the genus Euracmaeops Danilevsky (Cerambycidae: Lepturinae: Rhagiini).
Munis Entomology & Zoology 20 (1): 1984-1986, 2025. [download[✧]
Lazarev M.A.:
Taxonomic notes on Palaearctic longhorned beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). Part. 3.
Humanity space - International Almanac 14 (5): 390-402, 2025. [download
[Photo © Miroslav Fiala]
| Subfamilia | Lepturinae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Cariliini Zamoroka, 2022 |
| Genus | Euracmaeops Danilevsky, 2014 |
| Subgenus | Euracmaeops Danilevsky, 2014 |
| Species | Euracmaeops (Euracmaeops) marginatus (Fabricius, 1781) |