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Tetropium fuscum

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Tetropium fuscum is a species in the family Cerambycidae, order Coleoptera. Recorded adults reach 1.7 cm in length. Source checklists list it for 29 countries, including Austria, Belgium and Bosnia & Herzegovina.

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Quick facts about Tetropium fuscum

Weight
Not recorded
Length
8 mm – 1.7 cm
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Herbivore
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
forest
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Active
At night (nocturnal)
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
29 countriessrc for Countries on record

How big is Tetropium fuscum?

TETROPIUM FUSCUM · LENGTH 1.7 CMADULT HUMAN · HEIGHT 1.7 M
At 1.7 cm, the recorded maximum length of the tetropium fuscum is about 1.0% of the height of an adult human (1.7 m, a fixed reference used for scale).

Where does Tetropium fuscum live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

Tetropium fuscum is listed for 29 countries.

CanadaKazakhstanRussiaNorwayFranceSierra LeoneSwedenPolandAustriaHungaryMoldovaRomaniaLithuaniaEstoniaGermanyBulgariaTurkeyCroatiaSwitzerlandBelgiumNetherlandsChinaItalyDenmarkUnited KingdomGeorgiaFinlandSlovakiaBosnia and Herz.
  • Listed
  • Not listed
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The same countries as a list

  1. Austria
  2. Belgium
  3. Bosnia & Herzegovina
  4. Bulgaria
  5. Canada
  6. China
  7. Croatia
  8. Denmark
  9. Estonia
  10. Finland
  11. France
  12. Georgia
  13. Germany
  14. Hungary
  15. Italy
  16. Kazakhstan
  17. Lithuania
  18. Moldova
  19. Netherlands
  20. Norway
  21. Poland
  22. Romania
  23. Russia
  24. Sierra Leone
  25. Slovakia
  26. Sweden
  27. Switzerland
  28. Türkiye
  29. United Kingdom

Why a country list is not a range map

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Tetropium fuscum as introduced in 1 country, and flagged as invasive in it.

  1. Canadainvasive

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is Tetropium fuscum endangered?

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.

How is Tetropium fuscum classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderColeoptera
  5. familyCerambycidae
  6. genusTetropium
  7. SpeciesTetropium fuscum (Fabricius, 1787)

Synonyms Callidium arvense, Callidium fuscum, Criomorphus fuscu, Criomorphus fuscus, Isarthron fuscum, Tetropium fuscum fuscum, Tetropium fuscum var. ferruginipes

Other names and names in other languages (8)
  • Nøgen tandbukDanish
  • himmeäkuusijääräFinnish
  • Doffe dubbeloogboktorDutch
  • skulderfläcksbockSwedish
  • Båndet barkbukDanish
  • Dobbeltbåndet tandbukDanish
  • Forskelligfarvet nåletræbukDanish
  • skulderfläckad barkbockSwedish

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Tetropium fuscum

Other species in the same genus Tetropium.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is Tetropium fuscum?

An adult Tetropium fuscum measures 8 mm – 1.7 cm long, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Where does Tetropium fuscum live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list Tetropium fuscum for 29 countries, including Austria, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria and Canada. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is Tetropium fuscum an invasive species?

In some places. The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species flags Tetropium fuscum as invasive in 1 country: Canada. It lists it as introduced in 1 in all.

What kind of animal is Tetropium fuscum?

Tetropium fuscum (Tetropium fuscum) belongs to the family Cerambycidae in the order Coleoptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Tetropium fuscum (Tetropium fuscum). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/tetropium-fuscum

MLA

“Tetropium fuscum (Tetropium fuscum).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/tetropium-fuscum.

BibTeX
@misc{tetropium_fuscum_2026,
  title = {Tetropium fuscum (Tetropium fuscum)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/tetropium-fuscum},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}