Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE / Tribus: TRACHYDERINI
[Photo © M.Hoskovec]
Body length: 8 - 15 mm Life cycle: 2 - 3 years Adults in: May - June Host plant: oaks (Quercus spp.) Distribution: Balkan Peninsula, European Turkey, Cyprus
The beetle depicted in upper pictures was beaten from a blossoming hawthorn (Crataegus) in locality situated along the main road from Sparta to Tripoli on a mountain plateau (20 km S Tripoli, 900 m, Peloponnese peninsula, Greece). Specimen in lower pictures was photographed by Laurens van der Linde in vicinity of church Kokini ekklisia, 3.5 kn NW of Nydri / Νυδρί (N38° 44.097' E20° 41.359'; Lefkada island, Ionian Islands, Greece).Collected by M.Hoskovec and Laurens van der Linde
[Photo © Laurens van der Linde]
Subfamilia: Cerambycinae Latreille, 1802
Tribus: Trachyderini Dupont, 1836
Genus: Calchaenesthes Kraatz, 1863
Species: Calchaenesthes oblongomaculata (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)