Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE / Tribus: CLYTINI
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Isotomus theresae, a rare Cerambycid species occuring in Northern Africa (Algeria and Tunisia), has been described from Yakouren environs (Kabylia, Algeria) as Clytus (Caloclytus) Theresae by Maurice Pic in 1897 [✩]. Larvae of I. theresae, taxon which is only known from five localities [❖], develop in wood of dead deciduous trees [✧].
Body length: 12 - 18 mm Life cycle: 2 - 4 years Adults in: June - July Host plant: polyphagous on deciduos trees (Quercus mirbecki, Alnus glutiosa) [✧] Distribution: Algeria, Tunisia
Depicted beetles were reared from larvae found in dead oak branch 15 km NE of Ghardimaou (Jebel Feidia Mts., Jendouba province, Tunisia) on July 20, 2008.Collected by Walter Grosser
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Pic M.:
Séance du 28 juillet 1897. Coléoptères récoltés en Kabylie en 1897.
Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France, Paris [1897]: 221-222, 1897. [download]
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Villiers A.:
Coléoptères Cérambycides de l'Afrique du Nord.
Faune de l'Empire Français, ORSC Paris, 5: 1-152, 1946. [download[✧]
Sama G.:
Note préliminaire pour une faune des longicornes de l'Afrique du Nord.
Biocosme Mésogéen, Nice 4 (1): 43-64, 1987. [download
| Subfamilia | Cerambycinae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Clytini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Isotomus Mulsant, 1863 |
| Species | Isotomus theresae (Pic, 1897) |