Pseudosphegestes longitarsus, a very rare endemic species from South and South-East Anatolia (Turkey), has been described by Carolus Holzschuh in 1974 [❖].
Body length: | 6 - 12 mm |
Life cycle: | 2 years |
Adults in: | June - July |
Host plant: | oak (Quercus) |
Distribution: | an endemic species to Turkey |
The depicted mounted beetle was found in pupal cell in dead branch stub remaining on a living Kermes oak (Quercus coccifera) in environs of Karadut village
(Nemrut Dagi National Park, Adiyaman province, Anatolia, SE Turkey) on June 10, 1996 [✧].
Collected by Michal Hoskovec
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Holzschuh C.:
Neue bockkäfer aus Pakistan, Iran, Anatolien und Mazedonien (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Zeitschrift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Österreichischer Entomologen 25 (3/4): [1973] 1974.
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Danilevsky M.L.:
New taxa of Cerambycidae from Turkey and Transcaucasia (Coleoptera)..
Elytron 13: 39-47, 1999.
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[✧]
Rejzek M. and Hoskovec M.:
Cerambycidae of Nemrut Dagi National Park (Anatolia, South-East Turkey).
Biocosme Mésogéen, Nice 15 (4): 257-272, 1999.
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