Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: SAPERDINI
[Photo © David Navrátil & 8K postprocessing Michal Hoskovec]
Mallosia scovitzii, together with the sister species M. mirabilis, were the first described taxa of in the following years estabilished genus Mallosia. M. scovitzii has been described as Saperda scovitzii by Franz Faldermann in 1837 [▽].
Body length: 16 - 34 mm Life cycle: 1 year Adults in: May - June Host plant: Ferula spp. and Prangos spp. (Apiaceae) Distribution: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey (Malatya, Erzurum, Van, Kars; ❖)
The depicted mounted beetles were collected in: ♂ Urtsadzor (Ուրցաձոր) village environs (1300-2045 m a.s.l., Mt. Kotutsar, Ararat province, Armenia) on June 6, 2013; dark ♂ Geghard (Գեղարդ) monastery environs (1700 m a.s.l., Goght, Ararat province, Armenia) on May 27, 2013; ♀ Saghmosavank (Սաղմոսավանքú) environs (1800-1900 m a.s.l., Ara leř Mt., Aragatsotn Province, Armenia) on May 25, 2013The depicted living female was collected on the host plant (Prangos ferulacea) in Karakurt Bucağı village environs (1450 m a.s.l.; 21 km SE of Sarıkamış, Kars province, East Turkey) on June 9, 2011.
Collected by David Navrátil and Michal Hoskovec.
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Faldermann F.:
Fauna entomologica Transcaucasica. Coleoptera 2. Longicornes vel Capricornes.
Nouveaux Mémoires de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 5: 433pp [pages 284-286], 1837. [download]
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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. [downloadDaniel K.:
Die Cerambyciden-Gattung Mallosia Muls.
Münchener Koleopterologische Zeitschrift 2: 301-314, 1904. [download
[Photo © Michal Hoskovec]
[Photo © Michal Hoskovec]
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Saperdini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Mallosia Mulsant, 1863 |
| Subgenus: | Semnosia K. Daniel, 1904 |
| Species | Mallosia (Semnosia) scovitzii (Faldermann, 1837) |