Entomol.rom., 11: 9-12, 2006 ISSN 1224 - 2594

Food plant data for several longhorn from (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) Maria-Magdalena Da s c ă l u

Abstract

The paper provides food plant data for 43 species of Cerambycidae from Romania.

Keywords: food plant, Cerambycidae, Romania

Introduction lăşmani (VS), 4.VI.2004 → 1.VII.2004, 1 spec. In this paper it is given a list with longhorn from sp. ( in wood of dead, dry, standing beetles obtained by rearing during 2002-2007 from trunk). different food plants. The relationship Ceramby- cidae-host plant was not very well studied in our Lepturinae country; most data regarding this issue were given Rhagium inquisitor (Linnaeus, 1758). Ra- by En e & Tu d o r (1957), Ne gr u & Pâ r v e s c u (1957), rău Mountain (SV), 5.VII.2005 → 18.VIII.2005, 1 Ne gr u (1959, 1965, 1966, 1968a b c, 1971), Ră d o i & spec. from Picea abies (larvae in pupal cell under Mi h a l a c h e (1960), Ro m a ş c u et al. (1960), Nă s t a s e the bark of a dead fallen trunk). It was also obtained (1966), Ne gr u & Ro ş c a (1967), Să v u l e s c u (1972), from Abies alba and Picea abies by Ko v a c s et al. Ko v a c s et al. (1999), Gu r ă u & Ci u b o t ar u (2004). (1999). All papers, excepting the last two, are dealing with Rhagium mordax (Degeer, 1775). Bârnova pest species and describe the damage and some- forest (IS), 18.XI.2002 → XII. 2003, 1 spec. from times different methods for pest control. Some data Fagus sp. (larva under bark). It was also obtained on this topic appears also in the papers of Bu c ş ă from Corylus colurna by Ko v a c s et al. (1999) and (1978) and Gu r ă u (2004). from Quercus sp. by Gu r ă u & Ci u b o t ar u (2004). Grammoptera ustulata (Schaller, 1783). Abbreviations used for the counties are fol- Mârzeşti forest (IS), 6.IV.2005 → 22.IV.2005, lows as: 27.IV.2005, 2 specs from Quercus sp. (in rotten BC - Bacău; BT - Botoşani; CT - Constanţa; branches). IS- Iaşi; NT - Neamţ; SV - Suceava; TL - Tulcea, Stictoleptura rubra (Linnaeus, 1758). Cer- VS - Vaslui. negura Hill-Piatra Neamţ (NT), 30.III.2003 → V. 2003, 2 specs from Picea abies (larvae in pupal cel- Material and methods ls in rotten wood of a stump). Most species were obtained by rearing from Stictoleptura scutellata (Fabricius, 1781). vegetal material with traces of damage (galleries Bârnova forest (IS), 21.IV.2004 → V.2004, 1 spec. or exit holes): fallen branches and twigs, pieces of from Tilia sp. in rotten, moist wood of fallen trunk; stumps and trunks, roots of different herbaceous another specimen was found dead in a pupal cell in plants. Some species were obtained directly from the same trunk. pupae found under bark or in soil under roots. Leptura aurulenta Fabricius, 1792. Bârnova We followed the nomenclature and system- forest (IS), 18.XI.2002 → VII.2003, 2 specs from atic proposed by Al t h o f f & Da n i l e v s k y (1997) and Tilia sp. (larvae in dead wood of an old stump). Br u s t e l et al. (2002). Spondylidinae Results Tetropium fuscum (Fabricius, 1787). Piatra After several years of rearing Cerambycidae Craiului Mountain, 22.V.2004 → VI. 2004, 1 spec. from various host plants, we obtained the following from Picea abies (under bark). species: Cerambycinae Prioninae Trichoferus pallidus (Olivier, 1790). Aegosoma scabricorne (Scopoli, 1763). Tă- Tălăşmani (VS), 6.VI.2003 → 5.VII.2003, 1 spec.

9 from Quercus sp. (larva under bark of dead, dry, spec. from Tilia sp.; 5.III.2006 → 22.III.2006, 1 spec. standing trunk). from Tilia sp. (in dead branches); Bârnova forest Axinopalpis gracilis (Krynicki, 1832). Gâr- (IS), 20.III.2005 → 4.IV.2005, 4 specs from Quer- leni (BC), 18.VII.2005 → V. 2006, 1 spec. from Fa- cus sp.; 28.II.2005 → 2005, 1 spec. from Quercus gus sylvatica (in dead twigs). sp. (in dead branches); Gârleni (BC), 18.VII.2005 Glaphyra umbellatarum (Schreber, 1759). → 5.IV.2006 1 spec. from Fagus sp. (in thin dead Botanical Garden of Iasi (IS), 31.V.2003 → VII. branches). It was also obtained from Juglans regia 2003, 3 specs from Malus sp. (in dead twigs); Bâr- by Ko v a c s et al.(1999). nova forest (IS), 20.III.2005 → 16.IV.2005, 1 spec. Neodorcadion bilineatum (Germar, 1824). Rosa canina (in dead twigs); Mârzeşti forest (IS), Podoleni (NT), 5.VIII.2004→ 10-14.VIII.2004, 2 5.III.2006 → 3.IV.2006, 2 specs Sambucus nigra (in specs from Lolium perenne (pupae under roots). dead twigs); Leorda (BT), 20.IV.2006 → 15.V.2006, fulvum (Scopoli, 1763). Podoleni 1 spec. from Cornus mas (in dead twigs). It was also (NT), 5.VIII.2004 → 10-14.VIII.2004, 1 spec. from obtained from Rosa sp. by Ko v a c s et al. (1999). Lolium perenne (pupae under roots). Callimus angulatus (Schrank, 1789). Bârnova Dorcadion pedestre Poda, 1761. Podoleni forest (IS), 28.II.2005 → 17.III.2005, 1 spec. from (NT), 5.VIII.2004 → 10-14.VIII.2004, 4 specs from Quercus sp.; 27.III.2005 → 5.IV.2005, 1 spec. from Lolium perenne (larvae, pupae under roots). Quercus sp. (in dead branches); 9.IV.2005 → 2005, Pogonocherus hispidulus (Piller et Mitterpa- 1 spec. from Carpinus betula (in dead branches). cher, 1783). Cenaru Forest-Andrieşul de Jos (VR), scopolii Füsslins, 1775. Mârzeşti 9.VI.2005 → 24.VII.2005, 2 specs from Alnus sp. forest (IS), 6.IV.2005 → 11-13.IV.2005, 3 specs (in dead dry twigs); Bârnova forest (IS), 9.IV.2005 from Quercus sp. (in dead branches). → 2005, 1 spec. from Carpinus betula (in dead dry Hylotrupes bajulus (Linnaeus, 1758). 1 twigs). spec. emerged from the door of our laboratory on Pogonocherus hispidus (Linnaeus, 1758). Bo- 4.X.2006. This door made of conifer wood was in- tanical Garden of Iasi (IS), 31.V.2003 → VII. 2003, stalled 5 years ago (the wood being almost certainly 3 specs from Malus sp. (in dead dry twigs); Bârno- older). va forest (IS), 10.IV.2006 → 13.VII.-10.X 2006, 9 Ropalopus macropus (Germar, 1824). Leorda specs from Euonymus sp. (in dead dry twigs). It was (BT), 20.IV.2006 → 20.V.2006 1 spec. from Quer- also obtained from Euonymus europaeus by Ne gr u cus sp. (in dead branches). It was also obtained from (1968) and Ko v a c s et al. (1999). Taxodium distichum by Ne gr u & Pâ r v e s c u (1957). Oplosia cinerea (Mulsant, 1839). Bârnova Xylotrechus antilope (Schönherr, 1817). forest (IS), 20.II.2005 → 22.IV.2005 1 spec. from Bârnova (IS), 20.III.2005 → 22.V.2005, 1 spec. Cerasus avium (in dead branches); 20.III.2005 → from Quercus sp. (in dead branches). 15.IV.2005, 2 specs from Tilia sp. (in dead bran- Chlorophorus figuratus (Scopoli, 1763). Mâr- ches); 9.IV.2005 → V.2005, 3 specs from Tilia sp. zeşti forest (IS), 5.III.2006 → 10.IV.2006, 1 spec. (in dead branches); 10.IV.2006 → 20.IV.2006, 2 from Quercus sp. (in dead branches). specs and 1 spec. on 10.V.2006 from Tilia sp. (in Clytus arietis (Linnaeus, 1758). Bârnova dead branches). It was also obtained by from Tilia (IS), 28.II.2005 → 19.III.2005, 1 spec. from Quer- sp. by Ko v a c s et al. (1999). cus sp. (in dead branches). One specimen was obtai- Anaesthetis testacea (Fabricius, 1781). Bâr- ned from Taxodium distichum by Ne gr u & Pâ r v e s - nova forest (IS), 20.III.2005 → 10.V.2005, 9 specs c u (1957). It was also obtained from Juglans regia from Quercus sp. (in dead thin dry branches). by Ko v a c s et al. (1999). Leiopus nebulosus (Linnaeus, 1758). Bota- nical Garden of Iasi (IS), 19.IV.2004 → V.2004, 7 specs from Quercus robur (larvae and pupae under Mesosa curculionoides (Linnaeus, 1761). bark of dead standing trunk) ; Bârnova forest (IS), Bârnova forest (IS), 20.IV.2003 → 5.VIII.2003, 1 20.III.2005 → 2005, 8 specs from Quercus sp.; spec. from Quercus robur (larva in pupal cell in the 28.II.2005 → 2005, 2 specs from Quercus sp. (in bark); 18.XI.2002 → 1.VII.2003, 1 spec. from Tilia dead twigs). It was also obtained from Juglans regia sp.; 10.IV.2006 → 12-18.VII.2006, 3 specs from Ti- by Ko v a c s et al. (1999) lia sp. In the wood of thick rotten branches. adspersus mulsant, 1846. Mesosa nebulosa (Fabricius, 1781). Mârzeşti Bârnova forest (IS), 28.II.2005 → IV.-V.2005, 130 (IS), 6.IV.2005 → 12.IV.2005, 1 spec. from Quercus specs from Quercus sp.; 28.II.2005 → 2005, 2 specs sp. (in dead branches); 6.IV.2005 → 20.IV.2005, 1 from Tilia sp.; 20.03.2005 → 16.IV.2005-10.V. 2005,

10 45 specs from Quercus sp.; 9.IV.2005 → 24.V.2005, 28.XI.2002 → 2.VII.-5.VII. 2003, 4 specs from 15 specs from Carpinus betula; 9.IV.2005 → 2005, Echium vulgare (in roots). 40 specs from Carpinus betula; Gârleni (BC), Phytoecia uncinata (Redtenbacher, 1842). 18.VII.2005 → 20.IV.2006 1 spec. from Fagus sp.; «Valea lui David» Natural Reseve (IS), 28.XI.2002 Leorda (BT), 20.IV.2006 → 10.V.2006, 1 spec. from → V. 2003, 1 spec. from Cerinthe minor (in roots). Cornus mas; Slava Rusă-Babadag (TL), 30.IV.2006 Calamobius filum (Rossi, 1790). Bârnova fo- → 23.V.2006, 1 spec. from Tilia sp. In dead, dry rest (IS), IV.2004 → VI.2004, 1 spec. from Dactylis twigs. glomerata; Agigea Natural Reserve (CT), 15.V.2005 Exocentrus lusitanus (Linnaeus, 1767). Bâr- → 20.V.2005, 1 spec. from Leymus sabulosus (in nova forest (IS), 10.IV.2006 → 10.V.2006, 2 specs ; stem). 10.IV.2006 → 21-22.V.2006, 7 specs from Tilia sp. Agapanthia dahli (Richter, 1821). Valea Lu- (in dead, dry twigs). pului (IS), (leg. Mitroiu M.) 2004, 1 spec. probably Tetrops praeusta (Linnaeus, 1758). Botanical from Sambucus ebulus (in stem). It was also ob- Garden of Iasi (IS), 19.IV.2004 → V.2004, 4 specs tained from Helianthus annuus by Ro m a ş c u et al. from Malus sp. (in dead twigs). It was also obtained (1960). from Cotinus coggigria by Ne gr u (1965), Ne gr u & Agapanthia cardui (Linnaeus, 1767). Bâr- Ro ş c a (1967). nova forest (IS), 10.IV.2006 → 30.V.2006, 1 spec. Saperda scalaris (Linnaeus, 1758). Bârnova from Erigeron annuus (in root). forest (IS), 3.III.2003 → 23.III.2003, 8 specs from Cerasus avium (larvae in pupal cell in wood and un- Conclusions der bark of a dying trunk). It was also obtained from The food plants of most longhorn beetles are Alnus sp. by Ne gr u (1959) and from Juglans regia already well known, our data just confirming the by Ko v a c s et al. (1999). previous records. For other species we extended the Saperda octopunctata (Scopoli, 1792). Bâr- food plant list. This is the case of Agapanthia cardui nova forest (IS), 21.IV.2004 → VI. 2004, 1 spec. who apparently was never reared from Erigeron an- from Tilia sp. (pupa in wood). It was also obtained nuus. The situation is similar for Calamobius filum by from Tilia sp. by Ko v a c s et al. (1999). (that we obtained from Leymus sabulosus), Neo- Saperda populnea (Linnaeus, 1758). Probota dorcadion bilineatum, Dorcadion fulvum and D. (IS), 6.IV.2006 → 23.IV.2006, 6 specs from Populus pedestre (found as pupae under the roots of Lolium tremula (from galls on living twigs). It was also ob- perenne). tained from Populus nigra by Ră d o i & Mi h a l a c h e (1960). Acknowledgments Stenostola ferrea (Schrank, 1776). Bârno- I am grateful to Mr. Gianfranco Sa m a (Cese- va forest (IS), 21.IV.2004 → V.2004, 4 specs from na, Italy) for providing me information on this top- Tilia sp. (pupal cells at the limit between bark and ic. I thank Mr. Dr. Ciprian Mâ n z u (“Al. I. Cuza” wood of a fallen trunck); 28.II.2005 → 17.III.2005, University, Iaşi) for the identification of herbaceous 2 specs from Cerasus avium (in dead branches); plant species and all my colleagues for their help 20.III.2005 → 5.IV.2005, 1 spec. from Quercus sp. during field-work. Thanks to Nadia Pl o s c a r u for (in dead branches); 10.IV.2006 → 20.IV.2006, 4 the help with the translation. specs from Tilia sp. (in dead branches). Phytoecia cylindrica (Linnaeus, 1758). Bota- nical Garden of Iaşi (IS), 15.VII.2002 → 4.XI.2002, References 3 specs from Chaerophyllum aromaticum (pupae in Al t h o f f J., Da n i l e v s k y M. L. 1997. A check list of roots). Longicorn beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) Phytoecia nigricornis (Fabricius, 1781). Ma- of Europe. Slovensko Entomološko Društvo liuc-Danube Delta (TL), 20.VIII. 2002 → 2003, 2 Štefana Michielija, Ljubljana, 64pp. specs from Chrysantemum vulgare (pupae and lar- Br u s t e l H., Be rg e r P., Co c q u e m p o t C. 2002. Catalo- gue des Vesperidae et des Cerambycidae de la vae in roots). faune de France (Coleoptera). Ann. Soc. Ento- Phytoecia icterica (Schaller, 1783). Podoleni mol. Fr. (n.s), 38 (4): 443-461. (NT), 23.VII.2002 → XI.2002, 3 specs from Pasti- Bu c ş ă C. 1978. Coleoptere xilofage din muzeul teh- naca sativa (in roots). nicii populare Sibiu. Muzeul Brukenthal- Studii Phytoecia coerulescens (Scopoli, 1763). «Va- şi comunicări - Stiinţele naturii, 22: 343-365. lea lui David» Natural Reseve (IS), 27.VIII.2002;

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Author address: Maria-Magdalena Da s c ă l u “Al. I. Cuza” University, Faculty of Biology,Bd. Carol I, nr.20 A, 700505 Iaşi, România e-mail: [email protected]

Received: 7.12.2006 Accepted: 10.12.2006 Printed: 24.12.2007

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