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Now my short story about my encounter with Aegomorphus krueperi:

Greek Meteora area I visited several times: 18 and 20 May 2007 and 22 and 24 May 2008, and every time I watched this species there.

In addition to a number of individuals encountered in the field I was able to grow (from Quercus sp.) 1 ex!

Great!
Very very intersting beetle, i tryied to collect it in Meteora in 2010 but i was not lucky!
I hope there will be a second chance in 2014...

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Marci
"S'i fosse fuoco, arderei 'l mondo,
S'i fosse vento, lo tempesterei,
S'i fosse acqua, i' l'annegherei
s'i fosse dio, mandereil' en profondo" ( Cecco Angiolieri).

Wonderful report Adam, thank you!

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Daniele

Very nice and interresting !

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/worldwidebeetles/

In quelle quercete sui rilievi sopra alle Meteore ci sono stato non so più quante volte, ma purtroppo sempre in piena estate, e di A. krueperi non ne ho mai visto uno (probabilmente la stagione era troppo avanzata).Come magra consolazione ho trovato l'A. clavipes nelle pioppete nella valle sottostante.

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Maurizio Gigli
http://utenti.romascuola.net/bups
http://bup.xoom.it/

In quelle quercete c'è di tutto, cito a memoria: Coraebus fasciatus, Coraebus oertzeni, Opilo pallidus, Agrilus litura, vari altri Agrilus di quercia compreso il biguttatus, Acmaeodera longissima, Sphenoptera substriata ; appena sotto le quercete
Chalcophorella fabricii e stigmatica e poi non mi ricordo ...l'età

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Francesco Izzillo

Parecchie Anthaxia, altre Acmaeodera e Acmaeoderella, Julodis ehrenbergi, ecc. Uno dei miei posti preferiti, anche se non riesco più ad andarci dal 2002.

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Maurizio Gigli
http://utenti.romascuola.net/bups
http://bup.xoom.it/

Very interesting report and very nice species!

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AleP

Very beautiful

Thanx.

Dear Colegues,
In fact yuo can find A. krueperi since the second half of May till the second half of June.
In Greece this species I find in oak forest (not only in the Meteora area), aspecially on dead trunks and branches (20 - 100 mm) of oak.

In this localization I also observed:
Dinoptera collaris
Pseudovadonia livida
Anoplodera 6-guttata
Stictoleptura pallens
Pedostrangalia verticalis
Pachytodes erraticus
Rutpela maculata
Stenurella bifasciata
Stenurella 7-punctata
Axinopalpis gracilis
Stenopterus atricornis
Cerambyx cerdo
Cerambyx scopolii
Purpuricenus dalmatinus
Purpuricenus kaehleri
Phymatodes testaceus
Chlorophorus aegyptiacus
Chlorophorus figuratus
Chlorophorus sartor
Xylotrechus antilope
Xylotrechus arvicola
Clytus rhamni
Mesosa nebulosa
Morimus asper
Morimus funereus
Carinatodorcadion thessalicum
Neodorcadion bilineatum
Leiopus nebulosus
Exocentrus adspersus
Oxylia duponcheli
Pilemia hirsutula
Opsilia coerulescens
Agapanthia cardui
Agapanthia dahli

Pedestredorcadion thessalicum thessalicum

Yes, Zdenko.

And in question of subspecies Cerambycidae in area Meteora I found:
Pseudovadonia livida ssp. livida
Pachytodes erraticus ssp. erraticus
Rutpela maculata ssp. maculata
Stenurella bifasciata ssp. bifasciata
Stenurella 7-punctata ssp. 7-punctata
Axinopalpis gracilis ssp. gracilis
Cerambyx cerdo ssp. cerdo
Cerambyx scopolii ssp. scopolii
Purpuricenus kaehleri ssp. kaehleri
Xylotrechus antilope ssp. antilope
Clytus rhamni ssp. rhamni
Mesosa nebulosa ssp. nebulosa
Pedestredorcadion thessalicum ssp. thessalicum
Leiopus nebulosus ssp. nebulosus
Pilemia hirsutula ssp. hirsutula
Opsilia coerulescens ssp. coerulescens
Agapanthia cardui ssp. cardui
Agapanthia dahli ssp. dahli