ssp. grandicollis Mulsant & Rey, 1863
[= Leptura bisignata Brullé, 1832]
[= Vadonia bisignata (Brullé, 1832)]
Subfamilia: LEPTURINAE / Tribus: LEPTURINI
Vadonia grandicollis grandicollis ♂ [Photo © M.Daniel Rydzi]
Vadonia grandicollis, a remarkable species occuring in Bulgaria, Greece and North Turkey, has been firstly described from Peloponnese as Leptura bisignata by Auguste Gaspard Brullé in 1832 [✳]. However, due to the preoccupation of the name bisignata (used almost 180 years...), the valid name is grandicollis. It was used in the description of the same taxon from Smyrna (nowadays Izmir in North Turkey) environs by Étienne Mulsant and Claudius Rey in 1863 [✮]. Beetles, active in May and June, are diurnal and anthophilous.
Body length: 9 - 18 mm Life cycle: 1 - 2 years [?] Adults in: May - June Host plant: unknown, probably in roots of herbaceus plants as it is known in other congeners (cf. Vadonia unipunctata) Distribution: Bulgaria, Greece, North Turkey
The depicted beetles were collected on various flowers in Kelefa (Κελεφά) village environs (East Mani municipality, Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece) on May 30, 2021.Collected by Daniel Rydzi
[✳]
Brullé A.G.:
Expédition scientifique de Morée. Section des Sciences Physiques. Tome III. - 1.re Partie. Zoologie. Deuxième Section. - Des animaux articulés.
F. G. Levrault, Paris 3 (1/2): 400pp, 1832-1836. [download]
[✮]
Mulsant É. and Rey C.:
Longicornes nouveaux ou peu connus.
Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon (Nouvelle série) 10 (2): 144-184, 1863. [download
Vadonia grandicollis grandicollis ♀ [Photo © Daniel Rydzi]
| Subfamilia | Lepturinae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Lepturini Latreille, 1804 |
| Genus | Vadonia Mulsant, 1863 |
| Species | Vadonia grandicollis Mulsant et Rey, 1863 |
| Subspecies | Vadonia grandicollis grandicollis Mulsant & Rey, 1863 |