Alosterna tabacicolor

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Cucujiformia
Cladus: Phytophaga
Superfamilia: Chrysomeloidea

Familia: Cerambycidae
Subfamilia: Lepturinae
Tribus: Lepturini
Genus: Alosterna
Species: Alosterna tabacicolor
Subspecies: A. t. tabacicolor – A. t. caucasica – A. t. erythropus
Name

Alosterna tabacicolor (De Geer, 1775)

Type locality: Europe

Synonyms

Leptura tabacicolor De Geer, 1775
Grammoptera (Alosterna) tabacicolor : Mulsant, 1863
Grammoptera tabacicolor : Heyden, 1881
Leptura (Alosterna) tabacicolor : Ganglbauer, 1882
Alosterna tabacicolor : Pic, 1900
Grammoptera bivittis Motschulsky, 1860

Type locality: Amur

Alosterna tabacicolor var. bivittis : Matsushita, 1930
Alosterna tabacicolor var. fusca : Matsushita, 1930
Leptura chrysomeloides Schrank, 1781

Type locality: Austria

Leptura solstitialis Harbst, 1784
Leptura Genii Gmelin, [1790]

Type locality: Europe

Leptura laevis Fabricius, 1792

Type locality: Europe

Grammoptera elegantula : Tamanuki, 1942, (nec Kraatz, 1879)

References

De Geer, 1775, Mem. Ins., 5: 139.
Fabricius, 1792, Ent. syst., 1(2): 340.
Ganglbauer, 1882, Bestimm-Tab. eur. Coleopt., 7: 700.
Gmelin, [1790], in Linné, Syst. Nat. (ed. 13), 1(4): 1877.
Harbst, 1784, in Fussly, Arch. Ins., 5: 103.
Hayashi, M., K. Morimoto and S. Kimoto, 1984. The Coleoptera of Japan in Color, vol. IV, Hoikusha (Osaka). ISBN 4-586-30071-X.
Heyden, 1881, Cat. Col. Sib.: 196.
The Japanese Society of Coleopterology (eds.), 1984. The Longicorn-Beetles of Japan in Color, Kodansha(Tokyo). ISBN 4-06-124045-5.
Matsushita, 1930, Zool. Mag., Tokyo, 42(495): 24.
Motschulsky, 1860, in Schrenck, Reisen im Amurlande, 2(2), Coleopt.: 146, pl. 9, fig. 22.
Mulsant, 1863, Col. Fr. Long. (ed. 2): 576.
Ohbayashi, N., M. Satô and K. Kojima, 1992. An Illustrated Guide to Identification of Longicorn Beetle of Japan, Tokai University Press (Tokyo). ISBN 4-486-01181-3.
Pic, 1900. Cat. Longic.: 36.
Schrank, 1781, Enum. Ins. Austriae: 158.
Tamanuki, 1942, Fauna Nip. Ceramb., 2: 56.
Tribe Lepturini: Alosterna tabacicolor (Deg., 1775) - photo by D.I. Gavryushin

Vernacular names
日本語: ホクチチビハナカミキリ
русский: Усач бурый

Alosterna tabacicolor is a species of beetle in family Cerambycidae.

Subspecies

Subspecies include:[2]

Alosterna tabacicolor erythropus (Gebler, 1841)
Alosterna tabacicolor sachalinensis Danilevsky, 2012
Alosterna tabacicolor subvittata Reitter, 1885
Alosterna tabacicolor tabacicolor (DeGeer, 1775)
Alosterna tabacicolor tenebris Danilevsky, 2012
Alosterna tabacicolor tokatensis Pic, 1901

Distribution and habitat

This species is present in the Palearctic. In Europe in can be found in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom. In Asia it can be found in Armenia, Azerbaijan, China, Georgia, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, North Korea and Turkey.[1][2][3] These beetles occur from the plains to the lower mountain ranges, especially in forests. In the southern Alps they also live in higher areas.
Description

Alosterna tabacicolor can reach a body length of about 6–10 mm (0.24–0.39 in).[4] These graceful longhorn beetles are slender, the head, the pronotum and the upper part of the elytra are dark in color, while the remaining part of the elytra are brown-yellow and the sides are darkened. The pronotum is longer than it is wide, the sides are concave and curved inward. Elytra are finely haired. The legs of these beetles are brown-yellow, the ends of the thighs are rarely dark in color.
Biology

Adults of Alosterna tabacicolor feed on flowers of Apiaceae and Aruncus dioicus in well wooded areas. The flight time lasts from April to July, but adults of these beetles can be found especially in July. The life cycle lasts two years. The larvae mainly live in the bark of Quercus robur, but also in extremely decayed wood of deciduous trees (elm, oak, maple, willow, hazel, hornbeam and birch). Exceptionally, the development also takes place in coniferous species such as spruce or pine.[4]
Bibliography

This article has been expanded using, inter alia, material based on a translation of an article from the Deutsch Wikipedia, by the same name.
Adolf Horion: Faunistik der mitteleuropäischen Käfer, Band XII: Cerambycidae – Bockkäfer. Überlingen, 1974 (in German)
Bernhard Klausnitzer / Friedrich Sander: Die Bockkäfer Mitteleuropas. Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei 499. A. Ziemsen Verlag, DDR Wittenberg Lutherstadt, 1981, ISSN 0138-1423 (in German)
Jiři Zahradnik, Irmgard Jung, Dieter Jung et al.: Käfer Mittel- und Nordwesteuropas. Parey, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-490-27118-1. (in German)
The national key to Sweden's flora and fauna. Beetles: Longhorn beetles Coleoptera: Cerambycidae. 2007. ArtDatabanken, SLU, Uppsala, ISBN 978-91-88506-62-7 (in Swedish)

External links

iNatutalist
Hallan, Joel, Synopsis of the described Coleoptera of the World. Biology Catalog.Texas A&M

References

Fauna Europaea
Biolib
Joy, N 1932 A Practical Handbook of British Beetles
Longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae) of the West Palearctic region