[= Parmena balteus meregallii Sama, 1984; ❖]
Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: PARMENINI
[Photo © David Navrátil]
Parmena meregallii, a species with relatively small area of occurence in Catalonia and Pyrénées-Orientales, has been described as Parmena balteus meregallii by Gianfranco Sama in 1984 [❖]. Into species rank it was elevated by the same author in 1992 [✧].
Body length: 4 - 6 mm Life cycle: 1 - 2 years Adults in: adults hatch in March and as in other Parmena live for many months Host plant: Helleborus, Hedera helix, Ficus carica, Pinus, Malus Distribution: central and NE Spain and SW France
The depicted beetles were collected in: ♂ Seva environs (Osona comarca, Barcelona province, Catalonia, Spain) on May 5, 2014; ♀ Berga environs (Osona comarca, Barcelona province, Catalonia, Spain) on April 1, 2017.Collected by M.Tomas and M.T.Rafales
[❖]
Sama G.:
Studi sul genere «Parmena» Latreille, 1829 (Coleoptera Cerambycidae) (Prima parte).
Rivista piemontese di Storia naturale 5: 205-230, 1984. [download]
[✧]
Sama G.:
Note sur les longicornes de la péninsule ibérique avec description d'une nouvelle espèce de Trichoferus (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Biocosme Mésogéen, Nice 8 (4)-9 (1): 395-400, 1992. [download
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Parmenini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Parmena Dejean, 1821 |
| Species | Parmena meregallii Sama, 1984 |