Tanbark borer

Weight

Not recorded

Length

6 mm – 1.8 cmsrc for Length

Lifespan

Not recorded

Diet

Herbivoresrc for Diet

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

forestsrc for Habitat

Young per litter or clutch

Not recorded

Active

Day and night (cathemeral)src for Active

Conservation status

Not recorded

Countries on record

50 countriessrc for Countries on record

The tanbark borer is listed for 50 countries.

The same countries as a list

1. Albania
2. Algeria
3. Armenia
4. Austria
5. Azerbaijan
6. Belgium
7. Bosnia & Herzegovina
8. Bulgaria
9. Canada
10. Croatia
11. Cyprus
12. Denmark
13. Estonia
14. Finland
15. France
16. Georgia
17. Germany
18. Greece
19. Hungary
20. Indonesia
21. Iran
22. Iraq
23. Italy
24. Japan
25. Kazakhstan
26. Lebanon
27. Libya
28. Lithuania
29. Luxembourg
30. Moldova
31. Morocco
32. Netherlands
33. North Macedonia
34. Norway
35. Poland
36. Portugal
37. Romania
38. Russia
39. Sierra Leone
40. Slovakia

Why a country list is not a range map

Listed by: TITAN (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumArthropoda
3. classInsecta
4. orderColeoptera
5. familyCerambycidae
6. genusPhymatodes
7. SpeciesPhymatodes testaceus (Linné, 1758)

Synonyms Callidium italicus, Callidium luridum, Callidium praeustum, Callidium ruficolle, Callidium similare, Callidium testaceum, Callidium testaceum, Callidium variabile, Callidium variabile, Callidium variabile var. sellae, Callidium variabile var. testaceum, Callidium variabilis, Callidium violaceum, Cerambyx carniolicus, Cerambyx deustus, Cerambyx fennicus, Cerambyx fennicus, Cerambyx italicus, Cerambyx melanocephalus, Cerambyx testaceus, Cerambyx testaceus, Cerambyx variabilis, Cerambyx variabilis, Leptura crassipes, Leptura fallax, Leptura femorata, Phymathodes testaceus var. parnassicus, Phymatodes analis, Phymatodes elongatus, Phymatodes fennicus, Phymatodes nigricollis, Phymatodes nigrinus, Phymatodes praeustus, Phymatodes testaceous, Phymatodes testaceum, Phymatodes testaceum var. fennicum, Phymatodes testaceum var. nigricolle, Phymatodes testaceum var. praeustum, Phymatodes testaceus, Phymatodes testaceus melanocephalus, Phymatodes testaceus praeustus, Phymatodes testaceus var. analis, Phymatodes testaceus var. barbarorum, Phymatodes testaceus var. fennicum, Phymatodes testaceus var. fulvipennis, Phymatodes testaceus var. nigricollis, Phymatodes testaceus var. nigrinum, Phymatodes variabile var. ventrale, Phymatodes variabilis, Phymatodes variabilis, Phymatodes variabilis var. dimidiatipennis, Phymatodes variabilis var. rufipes, Phymatodes variabilis var. ventralis

Catalogue of LifeiNaturalistITISTAXREFWikidata

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• Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
  Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf
• Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (GRIIS) · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-11-13
  Pagad, S., Genovesi, P., Carnevali, L., Schigel, D. & McGeoch, M.A. (2018) Introducing the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species. Scientific Data 5: 170202. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.202. Country checklists published through GBIF by the IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group.
• TraitCH: a multi-taxa functional trait dataset for Switzerland and Europe · CC BY 4.0 · 2.0
  Chauvier, Y., Adde, A., Bergamini, A. et al. (2025) TraitCH: a multi-taxa functional trait dataset for Switzerland and Europe. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15063844

@misc{tanbark_borer_2026,
  title = {Tanbark borer (Phymatodes testaceus)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/tanbark-borer},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}