Subfamilia: NECYDALINAE / Tribus: NECYDALINI
[Photo © Michal Hoskovec, Fuji Provia 100F 35 mm film scan]
Necydalis sirexoides, a rare species endemic to Iran, is closely related to Necydalis ulmi Chevrolat, 1838 and also both species develop in a very similar way. It means that the larvae feed on a highly fungi-rich substrate present inside hollow living deciduous trees. A paper dealing with larval nutrition and female oviposition preferences of some Necydalis species was written by Rejzek and Vlasák [❖].
Necydalis sirexoides has been described from Gorgan environs (Iran) by Edmund Reitter in 1902 [✳].
Body length: 15 - 30 mm Life cycle: 3 - 4 years [?] Adults in: June - August Host plant: polyphagous on deciduous trees Distribution: a species endemic to Iran
The depicted beetle, a female, was reared from a larva collected in a hollow living Carpinus in NE Iran, prov. Khorasan, Golestan forest 45 km NE Minudast.Collected by Martin Rejzek
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Rejzek M. and Vlasák J.:
Larval nutrition and female oviposition preferences of Necydalis ulmi Chevrolat, 1838.
Biocosme Mésogéen (Nice) 16 (1-2): 55-66, 2000.[✳]
Reitter E.:
Drei neue Coleopteren aus Italien und Persien.
Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 21 (4): 81-82, 1902. [download]
[Photo © Michal Hoskovec, Fuji Provia 100F 35 mm film scan]
| Subfamilia | Necydalinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Necydalini Latreille, 1825 |
| Genus | Necydalis Linnaeus, 1758 |
| Subgenus | Necydalis Linnaeus, 1758 |
| Species | Necydalis (Necydalis) sirexoides Reitter, 1902 |