Leiopus kharazii, a rare species occuring in a relatively small area of Azerbaijan and North Iran, has been described from Nowshahr environs (North Iran) by Carolus Holzschuh in 1974 [✱].
| Body length: | 6 - 10 mm |
| Life cycle: | 1 - 2 years |
| Adults in: | May - July |
| Host plant: | probably polyphagous on deciduous trees, recorded from Tilia sp. |
| Distribution: | Azerbaijan (Talysh), North Iran |
The depicted beetle (8 mm) was collected in Peshtatuk village environs (Talysh Mts., Lerik district, Lankaran–Astara economic region, Azerbaijan) on June 7, 2008.
Collected by Denis G. Kasatkin
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Holzschuh C.:
Neue bockkäfer aus Pakistan, Iran, Anatolien und Mazedonien (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Zeitschrift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Österreichischer Entomologen 25 (3/4): 1973 (1974).
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Wallin H., Kwamme T. and Lin M.:
A review of the genera Leiopus Audinet-Serville, 1835 and Acanthocinus, Dejean, 1821 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Acanthocinini) in Asia,
with descriptions of six new species of Leiopus from China.
Zootaxa 3326: 1–36, 2012.
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