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Molorchus minor · eglinis laibūnas

  • spruce shortwing beetle
  • Dunkelschenklige Kurzdeckenbock, Kleine Wespenbock, Fichten-Kurzdeckenbock
  • eglinis laibūnas, mažasis trumpasparnis medkirtis
  • kortschildboktor, kleine kortschildboktor, kleine kortschildbok
  • kurtek mniejszy

https://www.ukbeetles.co.uk/molorchus-minor The species is generally associated with conifer woodland, including commercial plantations, but has occasionally been recorded from deciduous trees such as birch (Betula) in appropriate habitats, the usual hosts are pine (Pinus), spruce (Picea), larch (Larix) and fir (Abies) but other species are also likely be involved. Adults occur from April until July or August, they diurnal and active in warm weather when they visit a range of flowers to feed on pollen and nectar. Eggs are usually laid among damaged bark on recently damaged or cut branches and larvae initially develop under bark but as they grow they enter the xylem. Larval galleries are very distinctive, long, irregular, near-horizontal and often intersecting, they become deeper in late summer and larvae penetrate deeper to overwinter, development may continue over two or three years but pupation always occurs in the heartwood cell during July or August. Adults eclose during late summer but remain in the pupal cell until the following spring.

Subfamily: Cerambycinae · ūsuotėnai

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