Brachyta interrogationis is the species of the Lepturinae subfamily in Cerambycidae family.BioLib Taxon profile — species Brachyta interrogationis (Linnaeus, 1758) This species was described in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae under the name Leptura interrogationis.Carl Linnaeus: Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, regnum animale, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus differentiis synonymis, locis. Ed. X. Stockholm: Holmiae, 1758, s. 398
Subspecies Brachyta interrogationis interrogationis Linnaeus, 1758 Brachyta interrogationis duodecimmaculata Fabricius, 1781 Brachyta interrogationis ebenina Mulsant, 1839 Brachyta interrogationis eitschbergeri Danilevsky & Peks, 2015 Brachyta interrogationis gabzdili Danilevsky & Peks, 2016 Brachyta interrogationis lederi Lazarev, 2011 Brachyta interrogationis mannerheimii Motschulsky, 1860 Brachyta interrogationis marginella Fabricius, 1793 Brachyta interrogationis miroshnikovi Lazarev, 2011 Brachyta interrogationis russica Herbst, 1784 Brachyta interrogationis shapsugorum Lazarev, 2011: Brachyta interrogationis zubovi Lazarev, 2016
Distribution This species mainly occurs in Central Europe (Austria, Northern Czech Republic, Finland, France, Eastern Germany, Northern Italy, Norway, Southern Poland, Eastern Slovakia, Sweden and Switzerland), Caucasus, east to Western Russia,Fauna europaea Kazakhstan, Siberia, Mongolia, Manchuria, Korea and Japan.Vitali F.: Worldwide Cerambycoidea Photo Gallery
Habitat In Europe, this species is boreal-mountainous, reaching south to the Italian and French Alps, and north to the Arctic Circle. In the Alps, these beetles can be found at elevations up to 2700 meters above sea level.
Description
Brachyta interrogationis can reach approximately a body length of .M. Hoskovec, P. Jelinek, M. Rejzek Cerambycidae - Longhorn beetles of the West Palearctic Region They have a black body. Pronotum is convex, with dense punctuation. Also head, thorax and legs are black. Legs are relatively long and slender. The elytra are characterized by a very high variabilityLe monde des insectes and more than 150 varietas have been described.New subspecies of Brachyta interrogationis (Linnaeus, 1758) from Caucasus (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) Mun. Ent. Zool. Vol. 6, No. 2, June 2011 Sometimes the elitra are completely black or completely yellow, but usually they are brownish-yellow, with black spots on scutellum, two longitudinal black arcuate bands, and black spots on the sides and on the apex. Antennae are composed by 5-11 segments.Svatopluk Bílý, O. Mehl Longhorn Beetles - Coleoptera, Cerambycidae - Of Fennoscandia and Denmark
Biology The adult beetles can be seen on flowers from around May to August. They mainly feed on leaves, petals and pollen of flowers of wood cranesbill, but also on wild angelica (Angelica sylvestris), Anemone, plumeless thistles (Carduus species), hogweed (Heracleum species), Bupleurum species, peony and spurge (Euphorbia species).G Galina Borisovna Danilevskaya, Mikhail Leontievich Danilevsky, Karl Hadulla, Andrey Mikhailovich Shapovalov & Yaheita Yokoi Cerambycidae collected in North-East Kazakhstan by an international collecting trip 2005 (Coleoptera), Entomologische Zeitschrift · Stuttgart · 119 (4) 20
The larva develop in the soil, feeding on roots of grasses and other perennial plants. in which they dig longitudinal galleries. The development time from larva to imago takes one to two years. Then they form a pupation chamber, from which the imago leaves in May and June.
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