ssp. quadrifasciata Linnaeus, 1758
[= Strangalia quadrifasciata (Linnaeus, 1758)]
Subfamilia: LEPTURINAE / Tribus: LEPTURINI
Leptura quadrifasciata quadrifasciata ♀ [Photo © Milan Lovětínský]
Leptura quadrifasciata, a widely distributed Palaearctic species of deciduous and mixed forests, has been described from "Europa" by Carl Linné in 1758 [✮]. L. quadrifasciata larvae develop in completely dead wood, in thicker standing dead trees, in wood lying on the ground, in the hollows of living trees, and, in the case of some tree species, in stumps. By the time they have completed their development, the wood is usually already in an advanced state of decay. Several generations may occur within the same piece of wood. Development often takes place in very damp wood—such as in stumps and pieces lying on the ground—as well as in dry wood of standing trunks. It overwinters as a larva and pupates in the spring. Life cycle 3–4 years. Adults, active from late May to August, are diurnal and anthophilous (feeding mostly on blossom of Asteraceae, Apiaceae, and Rosaceae) [✧][❖][✳].
Body length: 10 – 20 mm Life cycle: 2 – 4 years Adults in: May – August Host plant: polyphagous in deciduous trees (Alnus, Fagus, Salix, Populus, Quercus, Betula, Corylus etc.) Distribution: Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Transcaucasia, North Iran
The living beetles were reared from larva found in dead alder (Alnus glutinosa) in Křivoklátsko Protected Landscape Area (Central Bohemia, Czechia) during winter 2020–2021.Collected by Miroslav Polcar
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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: 824pp [page 398], 1758. [download]
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Danilevsky M.L.:
Longicorn beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycoidea) of Russia and adjacent countries. Part 1.
Higher School Consulting, Moscow, 550pp [pages 323-324], 2014.
[download[❖]
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 256-257], 1998 [ISBN: 80-238-2627-1]. [download[✳]
Tamutis V. and Alekseev V.:
A survey of Lepturinae Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of the south-eastern Baltic region (Lithuania and the Kaliningrad Region).
Biologija 66 (4): 169-235, 2020. [download
Leptura quadrifasciata quadrifasciata ♂ [Photo © Milan Lovětínský]
Leptura quadrifasciata quadrifasciata ♀ [Photo © Milan Lovětínský]
| Subfamilia | Lepturinae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Lepturini Latreille, 1804 |
| Genus | Leptura Linnaeus, 1758 |
| Subgenus | Leptura Linnaeus, 1758 |
| Species | Leptura (Leptura) quadrifasciata Linnaeus, 1758 |
| Subspecies | Leptura (Leptura) quadrifasciata quadrifasciata Linnaeus, 1758 |