Plagionotus arcuatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
ssp. lugubris (Ménétriés, 1832)
[= Clytus lugubris Ménétriés, 1832]
[= Plagionotus lugubris (Ménétriés, 1832)]

Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE  /  Tribus: CLYTINI
Plagionotus arcuatus lugubris
[Photo © Lech Kruszelnicki]

Plagionotus arcuatus lugubris, a subspecies occuring in Azerbaijan, North Iran and Turkmenia, has been described from Talysh Mountains (Azerbaijan) as Clytus lugubris by Edouard Ménétriés in 1832 [▽]. In the work of Maxim Lazarev from 2010 [❖], it is already considered a subspecies of Plagionotus arcuatus.

Body length:8 - 20 mm
Life cycle:1 - 2 years
Adults in:May - July
Host plant:prefers Quercus spp., but also reported from deciduous trees (Castanea, Fagus)
Distribution:Azerbaijan, North Iran, Turkmenia [❖]


The depicted beetles were collected in the surroundings of Minúdast (NE Iran, Khorásán province).

Collected by Lech Kruszelnicki and Petr Kabátek


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Ménétriés E.:
Catalogue raisonné des objets de Zoologie recueillis dans un voyage au Caucase et jusqu'aux frontières actuelles de la Perse entrepris par ordre de S. M. L' Empereur.
Saint-Pétersbourg 4: 1-271 + i-xxxviii, 1832. [download pdf icon]

[❖]
Lazarev M.A.:
New subspecies of Plagionotus arcuatus (Linnaeus, 1758) from Transcaucasia and Kyrgyzstan (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Studies and Reports, Taxonomical Series 6 (1-2): 149-164, 2010. [download pdf icon]

Królik R., Kruszelnicki L., Lasoń A., Walczak M.:
Notes on the subspecies of Plagionotus arcuatus (Linnaeus, 1758) with description of a new subspecies from Iran (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Zootaxa 4942 (4): 558-568, 2021. [download pdf icon]


Plagionotus arcuatus lugubris

[Photo © František Kovařík]


 
SubfamiliaCerambycinae Latreille, 1802
TribusClytini Mulsant, 1839
GenusPlagionotus Latreille, 1829
SpeciesPlagionotus arcuatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
SubspeciesPlagionotus arcuatus lugubris (Ménétriés, 1832)