Saperda alberti Plavilstshikov, 1916

Karpinski, Lech, Szczepanski, Wojciech T., Boldgiv, Bazartseren & Walczak, Marcin, 2018, New data on the longhorn beetles of Mongolia with particular emphasis on the genus Eodorcadion Breuning, 1947 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae), ZooKeys 739, pp. 107-150 : 119

Saperda alberti Plavilstshikov, 1916

Material examined.

Selenge Aimag : 50 km NE of Zuunkharaa (49°05'N, 107°17'E), 930 m a.s.l., 03 VIII 2015, 1 larva, Salix sp., leg. LK .

Remarks.

This East-Asian species is distributed from western Siberia throughout north Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and China as well as to the Far East and Japan ( Danilevsky 2017a). The larvae develop under bark that has recently died and in the wood of certain deciduous plants, e.g., Populus , Salix , Chosenia . They pupate in sapwood or under or inside the bark. The imagines are active from early June to mid-August and can be found on their host plants or they are sometimes attracted to artificial light sources ( Cherepanov 1991b, Danilevskaya et al. 2009).

A single early larval instar was found under the bark of a broken trunk of willow Salix sp. in the light taiga. A large number of this species was collected in this area by Müller et al. (2013).