Subfamilia: SPONDYLIDINAE / Tribus: ASEMINI
[Photo © David Navrátil]
Arhopalus pinetorum, a species endemic to Canary Islands developing in dead pines, has been described from La Palma island (reared from larva found in dead pine in pine forests between the plains of Los Llanos and the Great Caldeira) as Criocephalus pinetorum by Thomas Vernon Wollaston in 1863 [❖].
Body length: 12 - 16 mm Life cycle: several years Adults in: July - October Host plant: pines (Pinus radiata, Pinus canariensis) Distribution: species endemic to Canary Islands (El Hierro, La Palma, La Gomera, Tenerife)
The depicted mounted beetles were reared from larvae found in trunk of dead Pinus canariensis in Bosquede la Esperanza environs (1685 m a.s.l., NE Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain) on June 26, 2019 together with larvae of the sister species Arhopalus syriacus (Reitter, 1895).Collected by David Navrátil
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Wollaston T.V.:
On the Canarian Longicorns.
Journal of Entomology, London 2 (8): 99-110, 1863. [download]
Subfamilia: Spondylidinae Audinet-Serville, 1832
Tribus: Asemini Thomson, 1860
Genus: Arhopalus Audinet-Serville, 1834
Species: Drymochares cylindraceus (Wollaston, 1863)