Stictoleptura rubra
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Cerambycidae |
| Genus: | Stictoleptura |
| Subgenus: | Aredolpona |
| Species: | S. rubra |
| Binomial name | |
| Stictoleptura rubra (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
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Stictoleptura rubra is a longhorn beetle often found in pines, firs and larches in its juvenile form.[2] Its gut contains cellulase-producing yeasts[3] to enable xylophagy, or wood-digestion.
Distribution
The species are found everywhere throughout European mainland, (except for Monaco, San Marino, Vatican City, and Russia). It can also be found in Turkey.[4]
References
- ↑ "Stictoleptura rubra (Linnaeus, 1758)". Biolib.cz. Retrieved February 22, 2012.
- ↑ Stictoleptura rubra (Linnaeus, 1758) (Red Longhorn Beetle)
- ↑ Grünwald, S.; M. Pilhofer; W. Höll (January 2010). "Microbial associations in gut systems of wood- and bark-inhabiting longhorned beetles Coleoptera: Cerambycidae]". Systematic and Applied Microbiology 33 (1): 25–34. doi:10.1016/j.syapm.2009.10.002. ISSN 0723-2020. PMID 19962263. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
- ↑ "Stictoleptura rubra (Linnaeus, 1758)". Fauna Europaea. Retrieved February 22, 2012.
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