[= Leptura punctata Geoffroy, 1785]
[= Leptura punctulata Gmelin, 1790]
[= Phytæcia Jourdani Mulsant, 1839]
Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: SAPERDINI
[Photo © Petr Jelínek]
Phytoecia rubropunctata, a widely distributed but rare and very local European Phytoecia, has been described from Paris environs (France) as Leptura rubropunctata by Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1777 [✮]. According to Carlo Sturani Phytoecia (Musaria) rubropunctata develops in roots and basal parts of Trinia glauca (Apiaceae) [❖] .
Body length: 7 - 14 mm Life cycle: 1 year Adults in: April - June Host plant: Trinia glauca, Seseli montanum (preferred host plant in France, Hervé Brustel, personal communication) Distribution: Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Hungary, Italy, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine
The depicted beetles were found on its host plant at Bollenberg hill (Westhalten environs, Alsace, North France) on April 24, 2018.Collected by Petr Jelínek
[✮]
Goeze J.A.E.:
Entomologische Beyträge zu des Ritter Linné zwölften Ausgabe des Natursystems.
Leipzig, Weidmanns Erben und Reich 1: v-xvi + 736pp, 1777. [download]
[❖]
Sturani C.:
Notizie biologiche e corologiche su alcuni Coleotteri Cerambicidi d'Italia, specialmente delle regioni settentrionali, insulari e limitrofe.
Rivista piemontese di storia naturale 2: 17-54, 1981. [download
[Photo © Petr Jelínek]
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Saperdini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Phytoecia Pic, 1892 |
| Subgenus | Musaria J. Thomson, 1864 |
| Species | Phytoecia (Musaria) rubropunctata (Goeze, 1777) |