[= Megopis scabricornis Scopoli, 1763]
Subfamilia: PRIONINAE / Tribus: AEGOSOMATINI
Aegosoma scabricorne ♀ [Photo © Adam Woźniak]
Body length: 25 - 52 mm Life cycle: at least 3 years Adults in: June - August Host plant: polyphagous in deciduous trees (Juglans, Castania, Corylus, Populus, Platanus, Tilia, Malus) Distribution: Europe except the North, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Caucasus, Transcaucasia
The depicted mounted beetles were found on a trunk of a dead plane (Platanus orientalis) in Leptokaria (North Greece) at night. The live female beetle (upper photo) was captured on eastern slopes of Ossa Mt. (Thessaly, Greece). The live male beetle (lower photos) was photographed only (protected species in Central Europe) on a living small-leaved lime (Tilia cordata) near Malacky (SW Slovakia) at night.Collected by Adam Woźniak and M.Hoskovec
[Photo © M.Hoskovec]
Aegosoma scabricorne ♂ [Photo © M.Hoskovec]
Subfamilia: Prioninae Latreille, 1802
Tribus: Aegosomatini Thomson, 1861
Genus: Aegosoma Audinet-Serville, 183
Species: Aegosoma scabricorne (Scopoli, 1763)