Trichoferus campestris (Faldermann, 1835)

Karpiński, Lech, Enkhnasan, Davaadorj, Boldgiv, Bazartseren, Kruszelnicki, Lech, Iderzorig, Badamnyambuu, Gantulga, Temerlen, Dorjsuren, Altanchimeg & Szczepański, Wojciech T., 2021, Longhorned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of southeastern Mongolia with particular emphasis on the genus Anoplistes Audinet-Serville, 1833 (Cerambycinae: Trachyderini), Zootaxa 5081 (4), pp. 451-482 : 460

Trichoferus campestris (Faldermann, 1835)

Literature data. Ömnögovi: 25 km S of Khanbogd [Хан-Богд], valley of river Undain _ Gol [ур. Ундын-Гол] [42.940, 107.255], in rotten Ulmus tree, 23.06.1971, 1 ♂ ( Namhaidorzh 1974) .

Remarks. This highly invasive species, which is originally native to the southeastern Palaearctic region, recently has rapidly increased its range (e.g., Grebennikov et al. 2010; Dascălu et al. 2013; Keszthelyi et al. 2019). Although the determination of the exact native area of T. campestris is problematic, the region of the Far East, including Mongolia, central and northeastern China, and the Korean Peninsula was designated by several authors ( Gressitt 1951; Cherepanov 1990a) as comprising the original distribution range of this species. However, if it is a native element in the Mongolian fauna, so few records for this species from the territory of the country seem quite surprising. We also have failed to find this nocturnal cerambycid during our two Mongolian expeditions, despite the frequent attracting insects to artificial light sources and collecting inhabited wood material. Trichoferus campestris was discussed in a previous paper concerning the longhorned beetles of Tajikistan ( Kadyrov et al. 2016).