[= Dorcadion cretosum Ferrari, 1865]
Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: DORCADIONINI
Dorcadion niveisparsum ♂ - A [Photo © Petr Jelínek]
Dorcadion niveisparsum, a Caucasian species known from Armenia, Georgia and East Turkey, has been described from "Caucasus" by James Thomson in 1865 [❖].
Body length: 15 - 19 mm Life cycle: 1 year Adults in: May - June Host plant: roots of grasses (Poaceae) Distribution: Armenia, Georgia, East Turkey
The living beetles were photographed in: (A) - Atskuri fortress (აწყურის ციხე) environs (Atskuri, Akhaltsikhe municipality, Samtskhe-Javakheti region, SW Georgia) on May 3, 2015 and May 9, 2016; (B) - Benara (ბენარა) village (Adigeni municipality, Samtskhe-Javakheti region, SW Georgia) on May 10, 2016. Depicted mounted beetles were captured in environs of Akhaltsikhe (ახალციხე) environs (Samtskhe-Javakheti region, SW Georgia) in May 2015.Collected by Petr Jelínek and our friend Evgeniy V. Rutjan
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Thomson J.:
Systema cerambycidarum, ou, Exposé de tous les genres compris dans la famille des cérambycides et familles limitrophes.
Imprimerie H. Dessain, Liège, 578pp, 1865. [download]
Breuning S.:
Revision der Dorcadionini (Col. Ceramb.)
Abhandlungen und Berichte aus dem staatlichen Museum für Tierkunde in Dresden 27: 1-666 [pages 486-487], 1962. [download
[Photo © Petr Jelínek & 8K postprocessing Michal Hoskovec]
Dorcadion niveisparsum ♂ - A [Photo © Petr Jelínek]
Dorcadion niveisparsum ♂ - B [Photo © Petr Jelínek]
Dorcadion niveisparsum ♀ - B [Photo © Petr Jelínek]
Dorcadion niveisparsum ♂ - A [Photo © Evgeniy V. Rutjan]
Dorcadion niveisparsum ♀ - A [Photo © Evgeniy V. Rutjan]
Dorcadion niveisparsum ♂+♀ - A [Photo © Evgeniy V. Rutjan]
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Dorcadionini Swainson, 1840 |
| Genus | Dorcadion Dalman, 1817 |
| Subgenus | Cribridorcadion Pic, 1901 |
| Species | Dorcadion (Cribridorcadion) niveisparsum Thomson, 1865 |