Phytoecia truncatipennis, an endemic species to Iran, has been described from "Persia" by Maurice Pic in 1919 [✧].

Kalashania Danilevsky, subgen. nov. of Phytoecia Dejean, 1835. Type species: Phytoecia erivanica Reitter, 1899. This subgenus differs from Phytoecia s. str., by the first antennal segment distinctly impressed near apex, similar to that in Conizonia Fairmaire, 1864. It differs from the latter by the thin, long antennae with long fourth antennal segment. Kalashania includes, in addition to the type species, Phytoecia pici Reitter, 1892 and P. truncatipennis Pic, 1919. These three species were traditionally placed in Semiangusta Pic, l892, considered either as a valid subgenus of Conizonia, or a valid genus (Plavilstshikov, 1948), a subgenus of Phytoecia Dejean, 1835 (Lobanov & al., 1982, Danilevsky & Miroshnikov, 1985), or a synonym of Phytoecia (Breuning, 1951, 1966). Currently, Semiangusta is used as at valid genus. It was fixed by Sama and Rejzek (2002) who designated Conizonia delagrangei Pic, 1891 as its type species. The act led to exclusion of Phytoecia erivanica, P. pici and P. truncatipennis from Semiangusta, because of the distinctive shape of the apical abdominal segment. Thus, these three species became unplaced within the Phyteciini and it was necessary to establish for them a new genus-group taxon. [excerpted from ❖]

Body length:	9 - 13 mm
Life cycle:	1 year
Adults in:	May - June
Host plant:	Ferula spp., Prangos spp.
Distribution:	endemic to Iran

Depicted beetles were collected on the host plant 11 km SE of Serow (سرو‎; 1950 m; Urmia county, West Azerbaijan, Iran) on May 29, 2018.

Collected by Petr Jelínek

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[✧]
Pic M.:
Notes diverses, descriptions et diagnoses (Suite.).
L'Échange, Revue Linnéenne 35 (396): 21-23, 1919. [download ]

[❖]
Löbl I. & Smetana A.:
Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6 Chrysomeloidea.
I. Löbl & A. Smetana editors, Apollo books, Stenstrup 6: 1-924, 2010.