Eustrangalis distenioides Bates, 1884

Subfamilia: LEPTURINAE  /  Tribus: LEPTURINI
Eustrangalis distenioides
[Photo © Kirill V. Makarov, click on the picture for 4K resolution]



Eustrangalis distenioides, a striking Cerambycid species occuring in the Kuril Islands (Kunashir) and Japan, has been described from Japan (Honshu) by Henry Walter Bates in 1884 [▽]. E. distenioides larvae develop in the dead, but still solid wood of deciduous trees. In Kunashir, only Kalopanax septemlobus is the host tree, but the species is not monophagous, as it is reported from Japan from other Araliaceae, and also from maples (Acer spp.). Larvae pupate in late summer and young beetles overwinter, life-cycle two or three years. Adults, active from June to August, are diurnal and anthophilous [❖][✧].

Body length:♂♂ 13 - 16 mm / ♀♀ 15 - 20 mm
Life cycle:2 - 3 years
Adults in:June - August
Host plant:polyphagous in deciduous trees
Distribution:Russian Far East (Kuril Islands - Kunashir), Japan


The depicted male beetle (16 mm) was collected in the Ecological trail "Stolbovskaya" / Stolbovskiye springs (Источники Столбовские) environs (N44°00′26″ E145°40′59″; Kunashir/Кунаши́р island, Kuril Islands, Yuzhno-Kurilsky district, Sakhalin region, Russia) on July 21, 2013.

Collected by Kirill V. Makarov


[▽]
Bates H.W.:
Longicorn beetles of Japan. Additions, chiefly from the later collections of Mr. George Lewis; and notes on the synonymy, distribution, and habits on the previously known species.
The Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 18: 205-262, 1884. [download pdf icon]

[❖]
Cherepanov A.I.:
Cerambycidae of Northern Asia, Volume 1 - Prioninae, Disteniinae, Lepturinae, Aseminae.
Amerind Publishing, New Delhi: 304pp [pages 526-531], 1988. [download pdf icon]

[✧]
Danilevsky M.L.:
Longicorn beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycoidea) of Russia and adjacent countries. Part 1.
Higher School Consulting, Moscow, 550pp [page 292-293], 2014. [download pdf icon]



 
SubfamiliaLepturinae Latreille, 1802
TribusLepturini Latreille, 1804
GenusEustrangalis Bates, 1884
SpeciesEustrangalis distenioides Bates, 1884