Aegomorphus obscurior (Pic, 1904)

Karpinski, Lech, Szczepanski, Wojciech T., Boldgiv, Bazartseren & Walczak, Marcin, 2018, New data on the longhorn beetles of Mongolia with particular emphasis on the genus Eodorcadion Breuning, 1947 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae), ZooKeys 739, pp. 107-150 : 116-118

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.739.23675

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D1679384-881D-4263-B885-375CA73F141E

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Aegomorphus obscurior (Pic, 1904)
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Aegomorphus obscurior (Pic, 1904) Fig. 5A View Figure 5

Material examined.

Selenge Aimag : 50 km NE of Zuunkharaa (49°05'N, 107°17'E), 930 m a.s.l., 02 VIII 2015 (10 IX 2016, ex cult), 1♂, from Betula platyphylla , leg. WTS GoogleMaps .

Remarks.

Aegomorphus obscurior was recently raised to the species level by Hilszczański (2008). After the revision of specimens, it is known to be broadly distributed in Russia and in the Siberian part of Kazakhstan ( Danilevsky and Shapovalov 2007) as well as in Mongolia ( Hilszczański 2008). In Europe, it reaches Latvia ( Telnov 2016) and eastern Poland ( Hilszczański 2008, Danilevsky 2017a). The species was recently included in the Mongolian fauna ( Hilszczański 2008) based on four specimens that were collected 30 km north of Batsumber by B. Burakowski and H. Szelęgiewicz in 1963. The larvae feed on dead trees or dead parts of living trees of their host plants: Quercus robur ( Hilszczański and Bystrowski 2005), Betula sp. and Alnus sp. ( Danilevsky and Shapovalov 2007). The life cycle lasts two years. The adults are active from the second half of May ( Hilszczański and Bystrowski 2005).

A single male was reared from the top part of a broken trunk of the birch Betula platyphylla (approx. 10 cm in diameter) (Fig. 7E View Figure 7 ) that was found in the light taiga habitat (Fig. 7F View Figure 7 ). The same material was additionally inhabited by larvae of Xylotrechus hircus , Saperda scalaris , and Mesosa myops . Our findings constitute the second record of this species from Mongolia.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cerambycidae

Genus

Aegomorphus