Calamobius filum (Rossi, 1790)

Gubin, O. I. & Pljushtch, I. G., 2019, The first records of Calamobius filum (Rossi, 1790) and Theophilea subcylindricollis Hladil, 1988 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiini) from Kyiv Region, Ukraine, Ukrainska Entomofaunistyka 10 (1), pp. 15-17 : 15-16

Calamobius filum (Rossi, 1790) ( Figs 1–2)

Material examined: Ukraine: Kyiv Region, Obukhiv Distr., Pidhirtsi vill. env., 50.1400°N 30,3207°E, 27.05.2018, 11 spec. (I. G. Pljushtch) ; idem, 01.06.2018, 16 spec. (I. G. Pljushtch) ; idem, 07.06.2018, 9 spec. (I. G. Pljushtch) .

Xerotermophilous Circummediterranean species, that widespread in Central and Southern Europe, North Africa, Near East, Asia Minor and Caucasus ( Bartenev, 2009; Zamoroka & Mateleshko, 2016). In Europe C. filum initially was distributed mainly on the territory of the Southern Europe, but since 2010s its expandsion of its distribution northward is being recorded ( Zamoroka, 2017). The species has been recorded from following countries: Europe: Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, European Turkey, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia (South of European part), Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine; Africa: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia; Asia: Azerbaijan, Armenia, Cyprus, Georgia, North Iran, Israel, Jordan, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Russia (from sentral and southern regions of European Territory to Southern Ural

Mountains), Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan ( Bartenev, 2009; Zamoroka, 2017; Danilevsky, 2018).

In Ukraine, T. subcylindricollis previously was known only from Southern and Southern-East regions (Mykolaiv Region, Kherson Region, Dnipropetrovsk Region, Donetsk Region, Luhansk Region) (in some cases was

misidentified and reported as “ Theophilea cylindricollis Pic, 1895 ”) ( Bartenev, 2004, 2009; Martynov & Pisarenko, 2004; Bartenev & Terekhova, 2011; Andrusevych, 2014; Zamoroka, 2017). It is worth noting that in Donetsk and Luhansk Regions, the species is numerous and is found Lebanon, Syria, Turkey ( Zamoroka & Mateleshko, 2016; Danilevsky, 2018).

In Ukraine C. filum initially was known from Dnipropetrovsk Region, Kherson Region, and Crimea ( Bartenev, 2009; Bartenev & Terekhova, 2011; Zamoroka & Mateleshko, 2016), but in 2015–2016 its mass invasion was registered in the Carpathian-Podillya region, and its wide distribution in the wood-and-steppe zone of all of Ukraine up to 50° of North was predicted ( Zamoroka & Mateleshko, 2016).

In 2018, the mass invasion of C. filum was firstly recorded in Kyiv Region near the southern boundary of Kyiv (Obukhiv Distr.).