Cortodera humeralis (Schaller, 1783)

Subfamilia: LEPTURINAE  /  Tribus: RHAGIINI

Cortodera humeralis
[Photo © M.Hoskovec]


Body length:7 - 12 mm
Life cycle:1 year
Adults in:May - June
Host plant:larvae live in surface soil layer under deciduous trees and feed in buried twig fragments, shallow dead roots etc.
Distribution:Central and South Europe, Turkey


The depicted beetles were beaten from a blossoming hawthorn (Crataegus) in Kamenica nad Hronom (South Slovakia).

Collected by M.Hoskovec


Subfamilia: Lepturinae Latreille, 1802
Tribus: Rhagiini Kirby, 1837
Genus: Cortodera Mulsant, 1863
Species: Cortodera humeralis (Schaller, 1783)