Subfamilia: SPONDYLIDINAE / Tribus: ATIMIINI
[Photo © David Navrátil]
Oxypleurus nodieri is a rare Mediterranean longhorn beetle associated with a variety of pines. The larvae feed in recently dead branches and pupate in shallow pupal cells built in sapwood. The adults are nocturnal and can be found early in the spring. The species was described from France by Étienne Mulsant in 1839 [❖]. Morphology of genus Oxypleurus has been well described by Petr Švácha and John F. Lawrence in 2014 [✧]
Body length: 11 - 16 mm Life cycle: 2 and more years Adults in: April - December Host plant: dead wood of pines (Pinus halepensis, nigra, pinaster etc.) Distribution: whole Mediterranean area
The mounted specimens were reared by David Navrátil from larvae feeding in dead pines collected in: ♂ - Mount Srđ (375 m a.s.l., Dubrovník environs, Dubrovnik-Neretva county, Croatia) in July, ♀ - Bosquede la Esperanza environs (1685 m a.s.l., NE Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain) on June 26, 2019 together with larvae of Arhopalus pinetorum (Wollaston, 1863) and Arhopalus syriacus (Reitter, 1895). The depicted living beetle was collected in NW Spain by M.Rejzek.
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Mulsant E.:
Histoire Naturelle des Coléoptères de France. Longicornes.
Paris, Maison: vii-xii + 304 pp [pages 57-58], 1839. [download]
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Švácha P. and Lawrence J.F.:
Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera. Volume 3: Morphology and Systematics (Phytophaga). 2.4 Cerambycidae Latreille, 1802
In Walter de Gruyter, Handbook of Zoology 3: i-xii (Richard A.B. Leschen & Rolf G. Beutel, Eds.), 676pp [pages 77-177], 2014. [download
[Photo © M.Hoskovec]
Subfamilia: Spondylidinae Audinet-Serville, 1832
Tribus: Atimiini LeConte, 1873
Genus: Oxypleurus Mulsant, 1839
Species: Oxypleurus nodieri Mulsant, 1839