ssp. inquisitor (Linnaeus, 1758)
[= Cerambyx nubeculus Bergsträsser, 1778]
[= Cerambyx (Rhagium) indagator Gmelin, 1790]
[= Cerambyx (Rhagium) exilis Gmelin, 1790]
[= Stenocorus cephalotes minor Voet, 1806]
[= Rhagium investigator Mulsant, 1839]
[= Rhagium iberonis Ericson, 1916]
Subfamilia: LEPTURINAE / Tribus: RHAGIINI
[Photo © Milan Lovětínský]
Rhagium inquisitor is one of the most common longhorn beetles of European coniferous and mixed forests. It develops predominatly in conifers (Pinus, Picea, Abies, Larix), but is also reported from Betula, Fagus or Quercus. Larvae feed under the bark of dead stems and stumps. Life cycle 2 years, pupation in autumn under the bark in oval pupal cell surrounded by long wooden shavings. Adults emerge from April to June and can be found on the freshly felled wood and ocassionaly on flowers [✧][❖][✳].
Rhagium inquisitor was described from Sweden as Cerambyx inquisitor by Carl Linné in 1758 [✮].
Body length: 9 - 22 mm Life cycle: 2 years Adults in: April - July Host plant: polyphagous, but coniferous trees are strongly preferred Distribution: Europe, Algeria, Russia, Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Turkey
The depicted beetles were collected/photographed in: (ML) - Olešná u Rakovníka environs (Central Bohemia, Czechia) on April 20, 2018 / April 4, 2022; (DR) - Dobratsch Mts. (Villach environs, Carinthia, Austria) on September 29, 2019 (ex larva).Collected by Milan Lovětínský and Daniel Rydzi
[✧]
Danilevsky M.L.:
Longicorn beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycoidea) of Russia and adjacent countries. Part 1.
Higher School Consulting, Moscow, 550pp [pages 88], 2014. [download]
[❖]
Sláma M.E.F.:
Tesaříkovití – Cerambycidae České republiky a Slovenské republiky / Cerambycidae of the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic.
Milan Sláma private printing, Krhanice, 383pp [pages 192-193], 1998 [ISBN: 80-238-2627-1]. [download[✳]
Tamutis V. and Alekseev V.:
A survey of Lepturinae Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of the south-eastern Baltic region (Lithuania and the Kaliningrad Region).
Biologija 66 (4): 169-235, 2020. [download[✮]
Linné C.:
Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis.
Systema naturae (Editio 10) Laur. Salvius, Holmiae 1: 824pp [page 393], 1758. [download
[Photo © Milan Lovětínský]
[Photo © Milan Lovětínský]
[Photo © Daniel Rydzi]
| Subfamilia | Lepturinae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Rhagiini Kirby, 1837 |
| Genus | Rhagium Fabricius, 1775 |
| Subgenus | Rhagium Fabricius, 1775 |
| Species | Rhagium inquisitor (Linnaeus, 1758) |
| Subspecies | Rhagium (Rhagium) inquisitor inquisitor (Linnaeus, 1758) |