Mallosia armeniaca, occuring in Armenia, Iran, and Eastern Turkey, has been described as Mallosia angelicae var. armeniaca from Armenia by Maurice Pic in 1897 [▽]. Mallosia caucasica Pic, 1898 [☆] and Mallosia herminae haiastanica Danilevsky, 2007 [❖] are synonyms of this remarkable species. Like most species of the genus, Mallosia armeniaca is ecologically associated with big Apiaceae plants close to Ferula and Prangos in the roots of which its larvae develop.

Body length:	16 - 40 mm
Life cycle:	1 year
Adults in:	May - June
Host plant:	Ferula spp. and Prangos spp. (Apiaceae)
Distribution:	Turkey, Iran, Armenia

The depicted beetle was collected in Urtsadzor (Ուրցաձոր;) village environs (Mt. Kotutsar, 1300-2046 m a.s.l., Ararat province, Armenia) on June 6, 2013.

Collected by D.Navrátil

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Pic M.:
Descriptions de Coléoptères asiatiques de la famille des Cerambycidae.
Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France, Paris 22 (14-15): 188-190, 1897. [download ]

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Pic M.:
Séance du 13 avril 1898. Description d'un Mallosia nouveau du Caucase [Col.].
Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France, Paris 1898: 168-169. [download ]

[❖]
Danilevsky M.L.:
New species of genus Dorcadion Dalman 1817 from Abkhazia and new subspecies of Mallosia herminae Reitter 1890 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) from Armenia.
Animma.x 23: 1-10, 2007. [download ]

Özdikmen H. and Aytar F.:
Subgeneric arrangement of Mallosia Mulsant, 1862 with three new subgenera, and a new species from Turkey (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Munis Entomology & Zoology 7 (2): 653-662, 2012. [download ]