Tetrops (Tetrops) praeustus
ssp. peterkai Skořepa, 2020
[Tetrops (Tetrops) peterkai Skořepa, 2020]

Subfamilia: LAMIINAE  /  Tribus: TETROPINI
Tetrops praeustus praeustus

[Photo © David Navrátil, click on the picture for 4K resolution]

Tetrops praeustus peterkai, a new Central-Eauropean taxon known from Czechia, Slovakia, Austria and Germany, has been described according series of many specimens from Central Europe (holotype from Moravia) as a separate species Tetrops peterkai by Lukáš Skořepa in 2020 [▽]. To the subspecies level it was downgraded by Maxim A. Lazarev in 2024 [✳]. Differential diagnosis of this interesting in Frangula alnus developing subspecies, which specimens have been confused with T. praeustus praeustus probably for decades until now, is also included in the description paper.

Tetrops praeustus species cluster comprises several very similar species and subspecies (T. praeustus praeustus (Linnaeus, 1758); T. gilvipes (Faldermann, 1837); T. praeustus praetermitus Sláma, 2020 [❖]; T. praeustus peterkai Skořepa, 2020) that are thanks to similar bionomy and overal look often confused or misidentified. Valuable information on the taxonomy of Central European Tetrops praeusta-cluster can be found in the works of Polish (Jacek Kurzawa, Marek Miłkowski, and Jerzy M. Gutowski, 2020) and German colleagues (Ralf W. Hass and Andreas Pütz, 2022)[✮][✳].

According to the authors of the website, the entire cluster of these taxa, in which the diversity of habits of adults is also influenced geographically, needs a comprehensive revision using not only classical morphology in larvae and adults but also DNA analysis.

Body length:♂♂ 3.1 - 5.0 mm / ♀♀ 2.9 - 5.5 mm
Life cycle:1 - 2 years
Adults in:April - July
Host plant:development reported only from alder buckthorn (Frangula alnus)
Distribution:Czechia, Slovakia, Austria, Germany


The depicted mounted specimens were beaten from Frangula alnus branches in Boršov u Litětin Natural Monument environs (Dolní Roveň - Litětiny, Pardubice district, Pardubice region, Eastern Bohemia, Czechia) on May 17, 2003 (♂) and May 26, 2001, respectively (♀).

Collected by David Navrátil


[▽]
Skořepa L.:
New species of the genus Tetrops Kirby, 1826 in Kirby & Spence 1826 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) from Central Europe.
Humanity space - International Almanac 9 (5): 563-570, 2020. [download pdf icon]

[✳]
Lazarev M.:
Taxonomic notes on longhorned beetles with the descriptions of several new taxa (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Humanity space International almanac 13 (1): 21-38, 2024. [download pdf icon]

[❖]
Sláma M.E.F.:
A new species of the genus Tetrops Kirby, 1826 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae, Lamiinae) from Bohemia.
Humanity space - International Almanac 9 (5): 571-576, 2020. [download pdf icon]

[✮]
Kurzawa J., Miłkowski M., Gutowski J.M.:
Nowe dane o taksonomii i rozmieszczeniu Tetrops gilvipes ssp. adlbaueri Lazarev, 2012 oraz Tetrops praeustus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
[ New data about taxonomy and distribution of Tetrops gilvipes ssp. adlbaueri Lazarev, 2012 and Tetrops praeustus (Linnaeus, 1758). ]
Rocznik Muzeum Górnośląskiego w Bytomiu, Przyroda 26: 1–20, 2020. [download pdf icon]

[✳]
Hass R.W. and Pütz A.:
Über einige mitteleuropäische Taxa der Gattung Tetrops Kirby, 1826 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
[ On some central European taxa of genus Tetrops Kirby, 1826 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). ]
Entomologische Nachrichten und Berichte 66: 257-264, 2022/23. [download pdf icon]

Sláma M.E.F.:
Tesaříci Rodu Tetrops střední Evropy.
[ Cerambycidae of the genus Tetrops of Central Europe. ]
Entomofauna Carpathica 32 (2): 12-18, 2020. [download pdf icon]



 
SubfamiliaLamiinae Latreille, 1825
TribusTetropini Portevin, 1927
GenusTetrops Kirby, 1826
SubgenusTetrops Kirby, 1826
SubgenusTetrops (Tetrops) praeustus
SubspeciesTetrops (Tetrops) praeustus peterkai Skořepa, 2020