Grammoptera cyanea, a very rare species occuring in Russian Far East and North Korea, has been described from Sakhalin as by Kôichi Tamanuki in 1933 [▽].
G. cyanea is a very rarely collected species whose bionomy is unknown. Adults, active in June and July, are diurnal and anthophilous [❖].
Body length: | ♂♂ 7.7 - 8.5 mm / ♀♀ 8.0 - 9.3 mm |
Life cycle: | [?] |
Adults in: | May - July |
Host plant: | unknown |
Distribution: | Russian Far East and North Korea |
The depicted male beetle (7.7 mm) was collected in forest at the foot of the Bolshevik (Большевик) mountain in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk environs
(N46°56′41″ E142°46′30″; 180 m a.s.l, Sakhalin oblast, Sakhalin, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia) on July 14-15, 2011.
Collected by Kirill V. Makarov
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Tamanuki K.:
A List of the Longicorn-beetle from Saghalien, with the descriptions of one new species, one new variety and one new aberrant form.
Insecta Matsumurana, Sapporo 8 (2): 69-88, 1933.
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[❖]
Danilevsky M.L.:
Longicorn beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycoidea) of Russia and adjacent countries. Part 1.
Higher School Consulting, Moscow, 550pp [page 217], 2014.
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