Pilemia annulata, a rare Transcaucasian species, has been described as Phytoecia annulata by Clemens Hampe in 1852 [❖] According to Martin Rejzek et al. and Denis Kasatkin Pilemia (Pilemia) annulata develops in Nonea (Boraginaceae) species (e.g. Nonea sp., Nonea stenosolen and N. anchusoides) [✧][▽].

Body length:	8 - 13 mm
Life cycle:	1 year
Adults in:	May - June
Host plant:	Nonea sp. (Boraginaceae)
Distribution:	Azerbaijan, Armenia, Iran, Turkey

Depicted beetle was collected in Kandovān (كندوان) village environs (Central district of Osku county, Āzarbāijān-e Sharqi province, NW Iran) on May 21-22, 2017.

Collected by A.Zubov

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[❖]
Hampe C.:
Verzeichniß der von mir im Kaukasus, in Trans-Kaukasien, Armenien, Kurdistan und West-Persien gesammelten und von Dr. Hampe bestimmten Koleopteren.
In: Moritz Wagner - Reise nach Persien und dem Lande der Kurden 2: 302-315, 1852. [download ]

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Rejzek M., Sama G., Alziar G.:
Host plants of several herb-feeding Cerambycidae mainly from east Mediterranean region (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Biocosme Mésogéen 17 (4): 263-294, 2001. [download ]

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Kasatkin D.G.:
Notes on the fauna and taxonomy of longicorn-beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of Near East and Transacaucasia. I.
Russian Entomological Journal 30 (3): 297-304, 2021. [download ]