Leptura aurulenta (Fabricius, 1792)

Stefanelli, Silvia, Della Rocca, Francesca & Bogliani, Giuseppe, 2014, Saproxylic beetles of the Po plain woodlands, Italy, Biodiversity Data Journal 2, pp. 1106-1106 : 1106

Leptura aurulenta (Fabricius, 1792)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; Taxon: taxonID: urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:114959; scientificName: Lepturaaurulenta; order: Coleoptera; family: Cerambycidae; genus: Leptura; scientificNameAuthorship: Fabricius 1792; Location: country: Italy; stateProvince: Pavia; locality: SIC "Boschi di Vaccarizza" - V1 ; verbatimElevation: 62 m; verbatimCoordinates: 32T 519272E 4999526N; verbatimCoordinateSystem: UTM WGS 84; decimalLatitude: 45.148947; decimalLongitude: 9.245157; georeferencedBy: Silvia Stefanelli; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: Carlo Pesarini; dateIdentified: 2011

Distribution

Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Britain I., Bulgaria, Corsica, Croatia, Czech Republic, European Turkey, French mainland, Germany, Greek mainland, Hungary, Ireland, Italian mainland, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Poland, Portuguese mainland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spanish mainland, Switzerland, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, Near East, North Africa ( Fauna Europaea 2013).

Notes

The species is widespread from the plains to the mountains. The larva develops in the cambial layer of large sections of freshly dead broadleaves wood. The adult is usually found on oaks, and rarely occur on flowers. ( Alexander and Anderson 2012, Pesarini and Sabbadini 1994).