[= Coptosia ganglbaueri Pic, 1936]
Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: SAPERDINI
[Photo © David Navrátil & 8K postprocessing M.Hoskovec]
Phytoecia ganglbaueri, a species occuring in Near East (Iraq, Syrie, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Cyprus, Turkey), has been described from Jerusalem environs as Coptosia Ganglbaueri by Maurice Pic in 1936 [▽]. Mikhail Danilevsky included this species in the newly established subgenus Paracoptosia in 2017 [❖]. According to Martin Rejzek et al. [✧] in Syria Phytoecia (Coptosia) ganglbaueri develops in Anchusa strigosa (Boraginaceae), Anchusa cf. barrelieri (Boraginaceae), and Echium glomeratum (Boraginaceae).
Body length: 7 - 12 mm Life cycle: 1 year Adults in: March - June Host plant: Anchusa, Echium Distribution: Iraq, Syrie, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Cyprus, Turkey
The depicted beetles were collected 10 km SW Lemesos (Akrotiri environs, Cyprus) on March 30, 2017.Collected by J.Pokluda
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Pic M.:
Nouveaux Coléoptères paléarctiques.
L'Échange, Revue Linnéenne 51 (463): 1-4, 1936.Breuning S.:
Revision von 35 Gattungen aus der Gruppe der Saperdini Muls. (Col. Cerambycidae).
Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey, Tutzing bei München 5 (2): 401-567, 1954. [download]
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Danilevsky M.L.:
A New Subgenus of the Longicorn Genus Phytoecia Dejean, 1835 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) from the Palaearctic Region.
Entomological Review 97 (8): 1137-1139, 2017. [download[✧]
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
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Saperdini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Phytoecia Pic, 1892 |
| Subgenus | Paracoptosia Danilevsky, 2017 |
| Species | Phytoecia (Paracoptosia) ganglbaueri (Pic, 1936) |