Menesia (Menesia) bipunctata (Zoubkoff, 1829)

Subfamilia: LAMIINAE  /  Tribus: SAPERDINI
Menesia bipunctata
[Photo © M.Hoskovec]
Menesia bipunctata
[Photo © M.Hoskovec]



Body length:5 - 9 mm
Life cycle:1 - 2 years
Adults in:April - June
Host plant:prefers alder buckthorn (Frangula alnus), but also in Juglans regia
Distribution:Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine


The mounted beetle was reared from a larva found in a dead buckthorn (Rhamnus frangula) trunk collected in East Bohemia in a locality called Lodrant (Eastern Bohemia, Czechia). The living beetles were reared from buckhorn branches collected in Sadská near Poděbrady (Central Bohemia, Czechia).

Collected by M.Hoskovec


Menesia bipunctata
Menesia bipunctata
Menesia bipunctata
[Photo © M.Hoskovec]

Subfamilia: Lamiinae Latreille, 1825
Tribus: Saperdini Mulsant, 1839
Genus: Menesia Mulsant, 1856
Subgenus: Menesia Mulsant, 1856
Species: Menesia (Menesia) bipunctata (Zoubkoff, 1829)