Photo © M.Hoskovec

Xylotrechus arvicola is a broadly distributed species (Europe, Caucasus, Transcaucasia, North Africa, Near East, and North Iran) and is quite common in Central Europe. It is broadly polyphagous in deciduous trees (Quercus, Carpinus, Fagus, Malus, Ulmus, Crataegus, Juglans, Populus, Tilia, Morus, Sorbus, Prunus, etc.). Larvae feed in dead wood of the hosts.

Body length:	8 - 20 mm
Life cycle:	2 years
Adults in:	May - August
Host plant:	polyphagous in deciduous trees
Distribution:	Europe, Russia, Caucasus, North Kazakhstan, Transcaucasia, Turkey, Iran, Near East, North Africa

The living beetles in the first four pictures (and mounted beetle on the right) were reared from larvae collected in a relatively compact dead wood of trunks and thick branches of hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) near Nižbor village (Rejzek and Rebl, 1999), a locality situated in Central Bohemia (Czech Republic).

Collected by M.Hoskovec and M.Rejzek.

Photo © M.Hoskovec

Photo © M.Hoskovec

Photo © M.Hoskovec

The beetle in this picture (and mounted beetle on the left) was beaten from common walnut (Juglans regia) in orchards near Perivoli village (SW of Corfu Island, Greece).

Collected by M.Hoskovec.