''Clytus rhamni'' is a species of round-necked longhorn beetle belonging to the family
Cerambycidae, subfamily
Cerambycinae.
Subspecies
Subspecies
In biological classification, subspecies is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed. Not all species ...
include:
*''Clytus rhamni bellieri''
(Gautier, 1862)
*''Clytus rhamni rhamni''
(Germar, 1817)
*''Clytus rhamni temesiensis''
(Germar, 1824)
Distribution
This common beetle is present in most of
Europe (
Albania,
Austria,
Belarus,
Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Bulgaria,
Croatia,
Czech Republic,
France,
Germany,
Greece,
Hungary,
Italy,
Republic of North Macedonia,
Moldova,
Montenegro,
Portugal,
Romania,
Russia,
Serbia,
Slovakia,
Spain,
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
,
Ukraine) in the eastern
Palearctic realm,
Caucasus, North
Kazakhstan,
Transcaucasia,
Turkey,
Armenia,
Israel,
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
,
Iran, and in the
Near East
The ''Near East''; he, המזרח הקרוב; arc, ܕܢܚܐ ܩܪܒ; fa, خاور نزدیک, Xāvar-e nazdik; tr, Yakın Doğu is a geographical term which roughly encompasses a transcontinental region in Western Asia, that was once the hist ...
.
[
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Habitat
This species occurs almost everywhere, but especially in meadows, in shrubs, in glades of wood, orchards and along paths.
Description
''Clytus rhamni'' can reach a body length of about .[ Head, pronotum and elytra are brownish or black. Males show a pronotum relatively fine and simply dotted, while females are coarser dotted.
Elytra are only thinly dotted and more or less glossy. Antennae and legs are red-yellow, but the hind legs are darker. The elytrae are crossed by light yellow stripes, as this beetle imitates, for defensive purposes, like other species of the genus ]Clytus
''Clytus'' is a genus of longhorn beetles in the family Cerambycidae
The longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae), also known as long-horned or longicorns, are a large family of beetles, with over 35,000 species described. Most species are characteriz ...
, the chromatic variety of wasps.
Bicolor tibiae distinguish ''Clytus rhamni bellieri'' subspecies. This species is very similar to ''''.Key to Clytus rhamni in Käfer Europas
Biology
Adults can be encountered from May through August,[ completing their life cycle in two year. These polyphagous beetles develop in dead wood of various deciduous trees. The imagos fly the second year. Larvae mainly feed in the dead wood of small branches of '' Rhamnus'' (hence the specific name), '']Castanea
The chestnuts are the deciduous trees and shrubs in the genus ''Castanea'', in the beech family Fagaceae. They are native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
The name also refers to the edible nut (fruit), nuts they produce.
Th ...
'', '' Quercus'', '' Ficus'', '' Ulmus'', ''Pyrus
Pears are fruits produced and consumed around the world, growing on a tree and harvested in the Northern Hemisphere in late summer into October. The pear tree and shrub are a species of genus ''Pyrus'' , in the family Rosaceae, bearing the po ...
'', '' Prunus'' species.[Longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae) of the West Palearctic region]
/ref> The adults are very common flower-visitors.
Bibliography
*C. Gautier des Cottes: Genre nouveau de Staphilinien et déscription de nouvelles espèces de coléoptères de Syrie et d'Europe in Annales de la Société entomologique de France 4. Serie, 2. Band, Paris 1862
*F. Picard: Faune de France - 20 - Coléoptères - Cerambycidae Paris 1929
* Mulsant: Tribu des Longicornes (suite) in Annales des sciences physiques et naturelles, d'agriculture et d'industrie Band VII Lyon, Paris 1863
*Hüseyin Özdikmen: Turkish Red List categories of Longicorn Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) part VIII: subfamily Cerambycinae, Anaglyptini and Clytini. in Munis Entomology & Zoology Vol 9, No 2, June 2014: 687–712.
*Mulsant: Larves des coléoptères in Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon Band 23 Lyon, Paris 1877
*Hüseyin Özdikmen, Mohammed Anwar Ali: Four genera and species new for the fauna of Iraque .... in Munis Entomology & Zoology Vol 12, No 2
References
External links
* M. E. F. Slám
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Clytini
Beetles of Asia
Beetles of Europe
Beetles described in 1817
Taxa named by Ernst Friedrich Germar