Polyzonus (Polyzonus) fasciatus (Fabricius, 1781)

Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE  /  Tribus: CALLICHROMATINI

Polyzonus fasciatus
[Photo © Lech Kruszelnicki]



This striking species of Callichromatini tribe, distributed from the Korean peninsula through Northern China and Mongolia to the Eastern part of the Russian Federation, was described by Johann Christian Fabricius as Saperda fasciata as early as 1781 [❖].

Body length:10 - 22 mm
Life cycle:several years
Adults in:July - September
Host plant:polyphagous in deciduous trees
Distribution:Russia, Mongolia, China, Korea


The depicted beetles were collected in Amarbajasgałant Child environs (Selenge province/Сэлэнгэ аймаг, Mongolia) on August 10, 2010.

Collected by Jerzy Zygmunt


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Fabricius J.C.:
Species insectorum exhibentes eorum differentias specificas, synonyma auctorum, loca natalia, metamorphosin adiectis observationibus, descriptionibus.
Hamburgi et Kilonii: Impensis Carol Ernest Bohnii 1: 552pp [page 232], 1781 [download pdf icon]

Skale A.: 2018
Zur Taxonomie, Synonymie und Faunistik der Callichromatini der orientalischen und indoaustralischen Region (Insecta: Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Callichromatini). Bemerkungen zur Gattung Polyzonus Dejean, 1835: Teil 1
Vernate 37: 325-393, 2018.

Bentanachs C.J.: 12
Revisión del género Polyzonus Dejean, 1835 y géneros afines (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Callichromatini)
Les Cahiers Magellanes 8: 1-100, 2012-


Subfamilia: Cerambycinae Latreille, 1802
Tribus: Callichromatini Blanchard, 1845
Genus: Polyzonus Laporte de Castelnau, 1840
Subgenus: Polyzonus Laporte de Castelnau, 1840
Species: Polyzonus (Polyzonus) fasciatus (Fabricius, 1781)