Pilemia annulata, a rare Transcaucasian species, has been described as Phytoecia annulata by Clemens Hampe in 1852 [❖]. P. annulata wawerkana, its subspecies endemic to Turkey, has been described from Akbez environs (Hatay province, Turkey) by Edmund Reitter in 1905 [✧]. The biology of this taxon is most likely identical to the nominotypical subspecies P. annulata annulata (Hampe, 1852).

Body length:	8 - 13 mm
Life cycle:	1 year
Adults in:	May - June
Host plant:	Boraginaceae
Distribution:	an endemic species to Turkey

Depicted female beetle was collected in Fevzipaşa village environs (N37°06′ E36°36′; 1050 m a.s.l., 5 km SE of Hasanbeyli, Hasanbeyli district, Osmaniye province, Mediterranean region, Turkey) in June 2000.

Collected by V. Šíma

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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 ]

[✧]
Reitter E.:
Übersicht der Arten der Coleopteren-Gattung Pilemia Fairm. Aus der palaearktischen Fauna.
Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 24 (7-8): 239-240, 1905. [download ] 

Breuning S.:
Révision du genre Phytoecia Muls. (Col. Cerambycidae).
Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey 2 (1): 1-103, 1951. [download ]