607 GENUS CERAMBYX L., 1758 (COLEOPTERA: CERAMBYCIDAE) IN THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM COLLECTIONS OF SIBIU (ROMANIA) Ioan TĂUŞAN itausan@gmail.com Natural History Museum 1 st Cetăţii Street, 550160 Sibiu, Romania Corneliu BUCŞA cornelbucsa@yahoo.com "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu, Faculty of Sciences Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection 5 – 7 th Dr. Ioan Raţiu Street, 550012 Sibiu, Romania KEY WORDS: Cerambyx, longhorn beetles, natural herritage, conservation, distribution. ABSTRACT: The paper consists of data on six Cerambyx species preserved in the collections of the Natural History Museum from Sibiu. The main interest is represented by the presence of Cerambyx cerdo Linnaeus, 1758, a protected species in Europe. Data on habitat requirements and distribution maps of the collecting sites are also given. INTRODUCTION Longhorn beetles have been studied in Romania and particularly in Transylvania since early 1890’s, when Seidlitz published in 1891 Fauna transsylvanica. In the same period Kuthy has published a study about coleopterans from Transylvania, Fauna Regni Hungariae (1897). Similar studies were undertaken by Deubel (1910), a zoogeographical catalogue with the longhorn beetles from the Carpathians and by Petri (1912), a comprehensive catalogue on Coleopterans collected especially from this area. More recent, catalogs from museum collection were undertaken by Chimişliu (1990-1993) Serafim et al., (2004), Serafim (2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009), Tăuşan & Bucşa (2010). Cerambyx cerdo Linnaeus, 1758 is a species of particular interest being present in the 2 nd Annex of the E.U. Habitats Directive. The paper complements existing data on these species, and contributes in outlining the evolution of insect fauna of Romania. MATERIAL AND METHODS The preserved material is part of “Dr. Eugen Worell”, “Dr. Karl Petri”, “Rolf Weyranch”, “Heinrich Hannenheim” and “Dr. Eckbert Schneider” collections from the Natural History Museum of Sibiu heritage. The “Dr. Karl Petri” collection consists of more then 46.300 insects. The material, a lifetime work, was collected from Transylvania. Karl Petri exchanges with foreign specialists are to be found in his collections. He donated the collection to the museum in 1930. The “Dr. Eugen Worell” collection counts more then 93.000 copies. The material was collected from Romania, but also from different areas including Europe, Africa, Asia and North and South America. The collection was donated to the museum in 1958, by Eugen Worell (1884-1961). The “Prof. Rolf Weyranch” collection consists of 16.436 insects. Rolf Weyranch collected the material in over 15 years (1950-1965), from Transylvania, mainly from the surroundings of Sibiu. The material from “Heinrich Hannenheim” collections was collected mainly from different regions of Sibiu County. Hannenheim’s collection contains almost 2000 Coleoptera specimens. The “Dr. Eckbert Schneider” collection includes over 20.000 pieces of insects, collected from all over the country and mainly from southern Transylvania. (Pascu & Schneider, 1998).