Xylotrechus hircus (Gebler, 1825)

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 : 115

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

Xylotrechus hircus (Gebler, 1825)
status

 

Xylotrechus hircus (Gebler, 1825) Fig. 2B, C View Figure 2

Material examined.

Selenge Aimag : 50 km NE of Zuunkharaa (49°05'N, 107°17'E), 930 m a.s.l., 02 VIII 2015 (24 III 2016, ex cult), 1♂, from Betula platyphylla , leg. MW; (09 III 2016, ex cult), 1♀, from Betula platyphylla , leg. WTS GoogleMaps .

Remarks.

Xylotrechus hircus occurs exclusively in Northern Asia from Altai to Japan ( Cherepanov 1990b, Danilevsky 2017a). The species is ecologically associated with birch, which is the only known host plant to date. The larvae initially live under the bark and then in the wood where they pupate after about two years of development. The imagines are usually active from June to July ( Cherepanov 1990b).

This is a rather infrequent taxon in Mongolia and is absent in most of the papers about this region. Recently, two specimens of this species were collected in the West Khentey region ( Müller et al. 2013).

One male (Fig. 2B View Figure 2 ) and one female (Fig. 2C View Figure 2 ) were reared from the top part of a broken trunk of the birch Betula platyphylla (approx. 10 cm in diameter) (Fig. 7E View Figure 7 ) found in the light taiga habitat (Fig. 7F View Figure 7 ). The same material was additionally inhabited by larvae of Aegomorphus obscurior (Pic, 1904), Saperda scalaris (Linnaeus, 1758) and Mesosa myops (Dalman, 1817).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cerambycidae

Genus

Xylotrechus