Clytus rhamni

Clytus rhamni
Clytus rhamni
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)

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