Biology:Rhagium mordax

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Short description: Species of beetle

Black-spotted longhorn beetle
Rhagium mordax on moss.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Cerambycidae
Genus: Rhagium
Species:
R. mordax
Binomial name
Rhagium mordax
(DeGeer, 1775)
Synonyms
  • Cerambyx mordax (DeGeer) Gmelin, 1790
  • Leptura mordax DeGeer, 1775
  • Rhagium linnei Laicharting, 1784
  • Rhagium vulgare Samouelle, 1819

Rhagium mordax, the black-spotted longhorn beetle,[1] is a species of long-horned beetle.[2] This beetle is found throughout Europe and to Kazakhstan and Russia.[2] Larvae develop in silver fir, hazel, European weeping birch, European beech, and the European chestnut.[2] Ischnoceros rusticus is an ichneumonid parasitoid wasp that feds on Rhagium mordax larvae.[2]

Subtaxa

There are five formally described varieties:[2]

  • Rhagium mordax var. altajense Plavilstshikov, 1915
  • Rhagium mordax var. klenkai Heyrovský, 1914
  • Rhagium mordax var. mediofasciatum Plavilstshikov, 1936
  • Rhagium mordax var. morvandicum Pic, 1927
  • Rhagium mordax var. subdilatatum Pic, 1917

References

  1. "Longhorn Beetles | Great Fen" (in en). http://www.greatfen.org.uk/wildlife/inverts/longhorns. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 BioLib Taxon profile — species Rhagium mordax (DeGeer, 1775)

Wikidata ☰ Q248328 entry