Phytoecia algerica, a relatively common Maghrebian species known from Algeria and Morocco, has been described from Annaba environs (Algeria) by Jules Desbrochers des Loges in 1870 [▽].

Body length:	7 - 11 mm
Life cycle:	1 year
Adults in:	April - June
Host plant:	unknown
Distribution:	Algeria, Morococo

The depicted beetle was collected in Forêt de l'Akfadou reserve (1000 m a.s.l., Akfadou environs, Kabylia, Béjaïa province, Algeria) on June 4-7, 1980.

Collected by Gianfranco Sama

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Desbrochers des Loges J.:
Descriptions de Coléoptères nouveaux d'Europe et confins.
L'Abeille 7 (1): 97-135, 1870.

Trócoli S.:
Actualización del catálogo de Longicornios de Marruecos Actualisation du catalogue des Longicornes du Maroc (Parte IV / Partie IV : Cerambycidae : Lamiinae).
Revue de l'Association Roussillonnaise d'Entomologie (R.A.R.E.) 29 (1): 26-65, 2020. [download ]

Villiers A.:
Coléoptères Cérambycides de l'Afrique du Nord.
Faune de l'Empire Français, ORSC Paris, 5: 1-152, 1946. [download ]