Aegosoma scabricornis

Aegosoma scabricornis (Scopoli, 1763)
[= Megopis scabricornis Scopoli, 1763]

Subfamilia: PRIONINAE / Tribus: MEGOPIDINI

Aegosoma scabricornis - detail
Photo © M.Hoskovec

Aegosoma scabricornis
Photo © M.Hoskovec

Body length: 25 - 52 mm

Life cycle: at least 3 years

Adults in: June - August

Host plant: polyphagous in deciduous trees

Distribution: Europe except the North, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Caucasus, Transcaucasia

The depicted mounted beetles were found on a trunk of a dead plane (Platanus orientalis) in Leptokaria (North Greece) at night. The live male beetle was photographed only (protected species in Central Europe) on a living small-leaved lime (Tilia cordata) near Malacky (SW Slovakia) at night.

Collected by M.Hoskovec.

Aegosoma scabricornis