Conizonia (Coptosia) fausti (Ganglbauer, 1886)
Iranocoptosia balachowskyi Villiers, 1967
Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: SAPERDINI
[Photo © David Navrátil, click on the picture for 4K resolution]
Iranocoptosia fausti, an interesting Irano-Anatolian species occuring in Iran and Turkmenistan, has been described from "Persia" as Phytoecia (Coptosia) Fausti by Ludwig Ganglbauer in 1886 [▽]. The same species was described again from Iran as Iranocoptosia balachowskyi by André Villiers in 1967, who also established a new genus Iranocoptosia for this taxon [✧]. The synonymy was published by Mikhail Danilevsky in 1993 [❖].
Body length: 8 - 19 mm Life cycle: 1 year Adults in: April - May Host plant: Crambe cordifolia kotschyana (Brassicaceae) [❖][✮] Distribution: Iran, Turkmenistan
The depicted mounted beetles were collected in: ♂ - 50 km W of Aşgabat (Turkmenistan) on April 17-21, 1991; ♀ - Magtymguly (formerly Kara-Kala / Кара-Кала) environs (Magtymguly district, Balkan province, SW Turkmenistan) on May 20, 1975.Collected by Alexander Napolov and Vladimir Gdalich Dolin
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Ganglbauer L.:
Neue und weniger bekannte Longicornier des paläarktischen Faunengebietes.
Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 35: 515-524, [1885] 1886. [download]
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Villiers A.:
Contribution à la faune de l'Iran. I. - Coléoptères Cerambycidae.
Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 3 (2): 327-379, 1967. [download[❖]
Danilevsky M.L.:
Some preliminary results of the type-material study of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Paris.
Russian Entomological Journal 2 (1): 47-50, 1993. [download[✮]
Prina A.O.:
Taxonomic review of the genus Crambe sect. Crambe (Brassicaceae, Brassiceae).
Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 66 (1): 7-24, 2009. [download
Male genitalia of Iranocoptosia fausti (Ganglbauer, 1886) in detail: A. lateral lobes, B. subgenital plate, C. aedeagus.
[Photo © David Navrátil]
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Saperdini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Iranocoptosia Villiers, 1967 |
| Species | Iranocoptosia fausti (Ganglbauer, 1886) |