Phytoecia (Musaria) wachanrui, one of the lesser known and collected taxa of the subgenus Musaria, distributed in South-Eastern Mediterranean region, Near-East, and Iran, has been described from Turkey by Étienne Mulsant in 1851 [❖].
| Body length: | 10 - 16 mm |
| Life cycle: | 1 year |
| Adults in: | April - June |
| Host plant: | Apiaceae (Eryngium sp.) [▽] |
| Distribution: | Greece (Rhodos), Iran, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey |
The depicted mounted beetle was collected in Tahtaköprü Dam (Tahtaköprü Barajı) environs (Kazıklı, İslâhiye district, Gaziantep province, Turkey) on April 3, 2010.
The living specimen was collected in Horsh Ehden Nature Reserve (Ehden environs, Zgharta district, North Governorate, Lebanon) on May 5, 2017.
Collected by E.Hajdaj and P.Hajdaj
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Mulsant E.:
Description de quelques coléoptères nouveaux ou peu connus de la tribu des Longicornes, suivie d'observations sur diverses espèces de cette tribu.
Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Lyon (2) 1: 122-137, 1851.
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Sama G., Rapuzzi P. & Kairouz A.:
Catalogue commenté des Cerambycidae du Liban. An annotated catalogue of the Cerambycidae of Lebanon (Insecta Coleoptera Cerambycidae).
Quaderni di Studi e Notizie di Storia Naturale della Romagna 30: 131-201, 2010.
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Plavilstshikov N.N.:
Matériaux pour la révision générale des Phytoéciaires paléarctiques. I. Sous-genre Musaria (J. Thoms.) et ses voisins (Col. Ceramb.) (cont.).
Eos. Revista Española de Entomología, Madrid 5: 379-426, 1929.
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