Ropalopus insubricus (Germar, 1824)

Cebeci, Hüseyin, Özdikmen, Hüseyin & Turgut, Semra, 2011, Callidiine species in Turkey with zoogeographical remarks and some interesting and rare records (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae), Journal of Natural History 45 (7 - 8), pp. 475-483 : 476-477

Ropalopus insubricus (Germar, 1824)

Original combination: Callidium insubricum Germar, 1824 .

Material examined

NW Turkey: İstanbul province: Belgrad forests, three specimens .

Records from Turkey

İstanbul province: Alem Mt. ( Bodemeyer 1906) .

Range

Europe ( Spain, France, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, European Russia), Turkey.

Chorotype

S-European. Since Sama (2002) stated that old records from N Africa seem to refer to R. ungaricus and (Herbst. 1784) and (partly) to R. siculus (Stıérlin, 1864) .

Remarks

This species develops in deciduous trees (especially Acer , also in Ficus, Fraxinus, Alnus, Salix, Fagus ). Larvae are found in damaged parts of living trees and feed subcortically and then in the wood of the trees ( Svacha and Danilevsky 1989; Bense 1995; Sama 2002). It has only a few described varieties. The present material constitutes the second record for Turkey in 104 years, and the species is probably distributed at least in NW Turkey according to present records, which also constitute the farthest east point of the known distribution area of the species. So the presence of this species in Turkey is confirmed by the present work. According to Danilevsky (2010), this species has two subspecies: the nominotypical subspecies and R. insubricus fischeri (Krynicki, 1829) which was described from E Ukraine. The latter is distributed only in Moldova, Ukraine and European Russia. Thus, it is an eastern subspecies of the species. So the species is represented only by the nominotypical subspecies in Turkey.