Akimerus schaefferi

Akimerus schaefferi
Adult female (left) and male (right)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Cerambycidae
Genus: Akimerus
Species:
A. schaefferi
Binomial name
Akimerus schaefferi
(Laicharting, 1784)
Synonyms

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Akimerus schaefferi is a long-horned beetle species (family (Cerambycidae). It belongs to the subfamily Lepturinae. This beetle is distributed in much of continental Europe, ranging from Iberia to Poland and Hungary, as well as in Bulgaria and Greece.

Systematics

This species has two currently accepted subspecies, and two color morphs have been described in the nominate subspecies:

The latter is found only in Greece, while the former seems to occur everywhere in the species' range but probably not in Greece. The subspecies limits are not fully understood yet, and given the species' distribution, the taxonomic identity of the Bulgarian populations needs to be clarified.

A number of now-obsolete junior synonyms were formerly applied to A. schaefferi:

References

  1. 1 2 BioLib Taxon profile — species Akimerus schaefferi (Laicharting, 1784)

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