Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: SAPERDINI
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Phytoecia pontica has been described from "Pontus region" (South Turkey) by Ludwig Ganglbauer in 1884 [❖].
Body length: 11.5 - 13.5 mm Life cycle: 1 year Adults in: April - June Host plant: unknown Distribution: Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Israel
The depicted beetles were collected in: ♂ - Borma (برما) village environs ( Qaṣabah Jarash district, Jerash governorate, Jordan) on April 13.4., 2022; ♀ - Krak de Montréal castle (مونتريال) environs (1300 m a.s.l., Shoubak, Ma'an governorate, Jordan) on April 23, 2018.Collected by Lukáš Skořepa and Jan Simandl
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Ganglbauer L.:
Bestimmungs-Tabellen der europäischen Coleopteren. VIII. Cerambycidae. (Schluss.) Mit Berücksichtigung der Formen Algiers und des paläarktischen Asiens, exclusive jener von Japan.
Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 33 (2): 437-586 [page 574], [1883] 1884. [download]
Özdikmen H. and Turgut S.:
An overview on the W-palaearctic subgenus Phytoecia (Helladia) Fairmaire, 1864 with a new subspecies Phytoecia (Helladia) humeralis caneri ssp. n. from Turkey (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae).
Munis Entomology & Zoology 5 (2): 317-343, 2010. [download
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A lateral view of Phytoecia (Helladia) pontica ♂.
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Saperdini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Phytoecia Dejean, 1835 |
| Subgenus | Helladia Fairmaire, 1864 |
| Species | Phytoecia (Helladia) pontica Ganglbauer, 1884 |