Saperda similis Laicharting, 1784

Karpinski, Lech, Szczepanski, Wojciech T., lewa, Radoslaw, Walczak, Marcin, Hilszczanski, Jacek, Kruszelnicki, Lech, Los, Krzysztof, Jaworski, Tomasz, Marek Bidas, & Tarwacki, Grzegorz, 2018, New data on the distribution, biology and ecology of the longhorn beetles from the area of South and East Kazakhstan (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae), ZooKeys 805, pp. 59-126 : 101-102

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.805.29660

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:89E4F806-F173-432B-AA15-C18E53A8FAEF

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F019316E-5214-80A2-977D-6FD4A2E929F1

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scientific name

Saperda similis Laicharting, 1784
status

 

Saperda similis Laicharting, 1784 View in CoL Fig. 4L

Material examined.

East Kazakhstan Region: Putintsevo [ Путинцево] env. (49°52'N, 84°21'E), 472 m a.s.l., 22 VI 2017, 1♀, leg. MB, coll. MW.

Remarks.

This is a rather rare but widespread species that is distributed from eastern Europe to the Far East ( Danilevsky 2018a). It was discussed in a previous paper concerning the longhorn beetles of Mongolia ( Karpiński et al. 2018).

A single female was beaten down from a dead willow in a mountain deciduous forest dominated by Populus and Salix .

The collected specimen represents the white pubescence form (var. albopubescens Pic, 1925), which is characteristic for central-east Asia but rather rare in Europe (e.g. the Czech Republic, France). Very similar specimens are deposited in Abdysalom Kadyrov’s collection (Dushanbe) that represents cerambycid material from Tajikistan.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cerambycidae

Genus

Saperda