Clytus rhamni
| Clytus rhamni | |
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| Clytus rhamni bellieri | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Cerambycidae |
| Subfamily: | Cerambycinae |
| Genus: | Clytus |
| Species: | C. rhamni |
| Binomial name | |
| Clytus rhamni Germar, 1817 | |
Clytus rhamni is a species of round-necked longhorns belonging to the family Cerambycidae, subfamily Cerambycinae.
This common beetle is present in most Southern Europe, in East Palearctic ecozone and in the Near East.
The adults grow up to 6 – 12 mm and can be encountered from May through August, completing their life cycle in two year. The imagos fly the second year.
Head, pronotum and elytra are brownish and the elytrae are crossed by light stripes, as this beetle imitates, for defensive purposes, like other species of the genus Clytus, the chromatic variety of wasps. Bicolor tibiae distinguish Clytus rhamni bellieri subspecies.
They are polyphagous in deciduous trees. Larvae mainly feed in the dead wood of small branches of Rhamnus (hence the specific name), Castanea, Quercus, Ficus, Ulmus, Pyrus, Prunus species. The adults are very common flower-visitors.
Subspecies
- Clytus rhamni bellieri (Gautier, 1862)
- Clytus rhamni rhamni (Germar, 1817)
- Clytus rhamni temesiensis (Germar, 1824)