Xylotrechus rusticus (Linnaeus, 1758)
[= Rusticoclytus rusticus (Linnaeus, 1758)]
Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE / Tribus: CLYTINI
[Photo © P.Jelínek]
[Photo © M.Hoskovec]
[Photo © M.Hoskovec]
[Photo © P.Jelínek]
[= Rusticoclytus rusticus (Linnaeus, 1758)]
Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE / Tribus: CLYTINI

[Photo © P.Jelínek]
Body length: 10 - 21 mm Life cycle: 2 years Adults in: May - September Host plant: polyphagous in deciduous trees (especially in Populus, also in Fagus, Salix, Betula, Acer, Tilia etc.) Distribution: Europe, Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Turkey, North Iran
The living beetle (grey pubescence) was photographed on a poplar log (Populus sp.) near Bitlis (East Turkey), the ochre-coloured specimen and also the mounted beetles were reared from larvae collected in a dead branches of white poplar (Populus alba) in Pouzdřany (South Moravia, Czech Republic).Collected by M.Hoskovec and P.Jelínek

[Photo © M.Hoskovec]


[Photo © M.Hoskovec]


[Photo © P.Jelínek]
Subfamilia: Cerambycinae Latreille, 1802
Tribus: Clytini Mulsant, 1839
Genus: Xylotrechus Chevrolat, 1860
Species: Xylotrechus rusticus (Linnaeus, 1758)