Judolia sexmaculata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Subfamilia: LEPTURINAE  /  Tribus: LEPTURINI
Judolia sexmaculata
[Photo © Udo Schmidt]

Judolia sexmaculata, an European species of submontane and montane coniferous forests, has been described from Sweden as Leptura 6-maculata by Carl Linné in 1758 [✧]. J. sexmaculata larvae develop in the decaying wood of the roots of various trees (Picea is strongly preferred). Females lay eggs the base of the trunks or on exposed parts of the roots, young larvae feed subcortically and then enter the sapwood, where they also overwinter. Pupation in wood above soil level after the second overwintering at the beginning of summer. Life cycle 2 years. Adults, active from June to August, are diurnal and anthophilous [✳][❖].

Body length:♂♂ 8.0 - 12.0 mm / ♀♀ 9.5 - 15.0 mm
Life cycle:2 years
Adults in:June - August
Host plant:polyphagous in coniferous and deciduous trees, but preferring Picea
Distribution: Austria, Belarus, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom


The mounted female was collected in Rovaniemi environs (Rovaniemi sub-region, Lapland, Finland) in summer 1994. The living beetles were collected on flowers in Modrava environs (Šumava National Park, Klatovy district, Plzeň region, South-West Bohemia, Czech Republic) on July 6, 2013.

Collected by Daniel Rydzi and A. Steidel


[✧]
Linné C.:
Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis.
Systema naturae (Editio 10) Laur. Salvius. Holmiae. 1: iii + 824pp, 1758. [download pdf icon]

[✳]
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 233-234], 1998 [ISBN: 80-238-2627-1]. [download pdf icon]

[❖]
Danilevsky M.L.:
Longicorn beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycoidea) of Russia and adjacent countries. Part 1.
Higher School Consulting, Moscow, 550pp [page 304-305], 2014. [download pdf icon]


Judolia sexmaculata
Judolia sexmaculata
Judolia sexmaculata
[Photo © Daniel Rydzi]


 
SubfamiliaLepturinae Latreille, 1802
TribusLepturini Latreille, 1804
GenusJudolia Mulsant, 1863
SpeciesJudolia sexmaculata (Linnaeus, 1758)