Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: POGONOCHERINI
[Photo © P.Jelínek]
Pogonocherus ressli, a rare Irano-Turanian species known from North Iran and Azerbaijan (Talysh Mts.), has been described from Nowshahr environs (Iran) by Carolus Holzschuh in 1977 [❖]. Larvae of P. ressli develop in dead/dying twigs and branches of various deciduous trees (Carpinus, Pterocarya, Tilia) [✧].
Body length: 4 - 5 mm Life cycle: 1 - 2 years Adults in: April - August Host plant: polyphagous in deciduous trees (Carpinus, Pterocarya, Tilia) Distribution: North Iran, Azerbaijan (Talysh Mts.)
The depicted beetle was reared from larva found in Carpinus twig in Kīnj (كينج) village environs (1550-1600 m a.s.l., Kojur District, Nowshahr County, Mazandaran province, Iran) in May 2019.Collected by Milan Pažitka
[❖]
Holzschuh C.:
Neue Bockkäfer aus Anatolien und Iran (Col., Cerambycidae).
Koleopterologische Rundschau, Wien 53: 127-136, 1977. [download]
[✧]
Miroshnikov A.I.:
New data on the Longicorn Beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) of the Talysh Mountains.
Bulletin de la Société des Naturalistes de Moscou 106 (1): 49-50, 2001. [download
[Photo © P.Jelínek]
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Pogonocherini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Pogonocherus Dejean, 1821 |
| Subgenus | Pityphilus Mulsant, 1862 |
| Species | Pogonocherus (Pityphilus) ressli Holzschuh, 1977 |