Saperda (Compsidia) quercus ocellata, a subspecies occuring in South-East Mediterranean (Israel, Jordan, Syria, Turkey), has been described from Akbès (Alep governorate, Syria) as Saperda ocellata by Elzéar Abeille De Perrin in 1895 [✧].

Body length:	12 - 17 mm
Life cycle:	2 years
Adults in:	May - July
Host plant:	living oak (Quercus spp.) twigs
Distribution:	Israel [❖], Jordan, Syria, Turkey

The depicted beetle was beaten from living oak in Hasanbeyli environs (Osmaniye province, Mediterranean region of Turkey) on June 1, 2002.

Collected by Z.Košťál and J.Voříšek

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[✧]
Abeille De Perrin E.:
Séance du 8 mai 1895. Descriptions de deux Coléoptères subeuropéens.
Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France, Paris ccxxix-ccxxx, 1895. [download ]

[❖]
Sama G. and Orbach E.:
Notes on several Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) from Israel, with description of Pseudobolivarita negevensis n.gen., n.sp. (Insecta Coleoptera Cerambycidae).
Quaderni di Studi e Notizie di Storia Naturale della Romagna 17 (supplemento): 63-68, 2003.
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