Stenurella bifasciata

Stenurella bifasciata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae.[2]

Stenurella bifasciata
Stenurella bifasciata, female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Suborder:
Polyphaga
Family:
Cerambycidae
Genus:
Stenurella
Species:
S. bifasciata
Binomial name
Stenurella bifasciata
Synonyms[1]
  • Leptura (Stenurella) bifasciata Müller, 1776
  • Leptura bifasciata Müller, 1776
  • Leptura cruciata Olivier, 1795
  • Leptura quadrifasciata Poda, 1761 nec Linnaeus, 1758
  • Leptura ustulata Laicharting, 1784 nec Schaller, 1783
  • Stenura sedakovii Mannerheim, 1852
  • Strangalia bifasciata (Müller, 1766)
  • Leptura melanura (Linnaeus) Herbst, 1784

Etymology

The Latin species name bifasciata means "with a double fascia".

Subspecies
  • Stenurella bifasciata intermedia Holzschuh, 2006
  • Stenurella bifasciata lanceolata (Mulsant & Rey, 1863)
  • Stenurella bifasciata limbiventris (Reitter, 1898)
  • Stenurella bifasciata nigrosuturalis (Reitter, 1895)
  • Stenurella bifasciata safronovi Danilevsky, 2011

[3]

Distribution

This species is present in most of Europe, in the eastern Palearctic realm, and in the Near East (Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, China, Corsica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Sardinia, Serbia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Syria, Turkey, and Ukraine).[4]

Habitat

These longhorn beetles live in meadows and slopes in foothills and valleys.

Description

Stenurella bifasciata can reach a length of 6–10 millimetres (0.24–0.39 in).[5] Head, antennae, pronotum and legs are black. Pronotum is slightly punctured. Elytra are yellow brown in the males, while in the females they are red, with a widely darkened elytron's suture, black apices and a black heart-shaped or rhomboid marking, sometimes missing in the males. The last three abdominal segments are usually red. The eleventh (last) antennal segment is longer than the tenth.

Biology

Life cycle last 2 years. Larvae develop in dead wood of deciduous trees.[5] They mainly feed on Pedunculate Oak (Quercus robur), Fig (Ficus carica), White Willow (Salix alba), Dog-rose (Rosa canina) and Spanish Broom (Spartium junceum).[1] Adults can be seen from May to September.[5]

  • Female of S. bifasciata
  • S. bifasciata
  • S. bifasciata feeding on Aruncus sylvestris
  • S. bifasciata feeding on Rosa canina

References
  1. Biolib
  2. Bezark, Larry G. A Photographic Catalog of the Cerambycidae of the World. Retrieved on 22 May 2012.
  3. Catalogue of life
  4. Fauna europaea
  5. Cerambycidae


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