Callidium (s. str.) violaceum (Linnaeus, 1758)

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 : 479

Callidium (s. str.) violaceum (Linnaeus, 1758)

Original combination: Cerambyx violaceus Linnaeus, 1758 .

Material examined

Turkey: one specimen without label .

Records from Turkey

Karabük province: Büyükdüz Research Forest ( Besçeli, 1969) .

Range

Europe ( France, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Great Britain, Ireland, Germany, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Norway, Sweden, Fınland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Crimea, European Russia), Caucasus, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Siberia, far eastern Russia, Kirgizia, Mongolia, China, Japan, North America.

Chorotype

Holaractic (except N Africa) or Nearctic + Sibero-European.

Remarks

This species develops in conifers (especially Abies , also in Picea, Pinus and Larix ). Larvae feed subcortically and then in sapwood of stems and branches of the trees ( Svacha and Danilevsky 1989; Bense 1995; Sama 2002). It has only a few described varieties. The present material is only the second record for Turkey in 41 years, and the species is probably distributed at least in north-western Turkey according to the records. So the presence of this species in Turkey is confirmed by the present work.