Stenocorus validicornis validicornis, a nominotypic subspecies occuring in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, has been firstly mentioned as Toxotus validicornis by Maurice Pic in 1900 [▽] and eventually described in detail by the same author in 1906 [✧]. Information on the larval biology of the species/subspecies are insufficient, but the mass collection of beetles in mountain meadows in the absence of trees and shrubs suggests a connection between the larvae and the roots of herbaceous plants. It is assumed that the population of Sary-Chelek lake environs (Kyrgyzstan) is related to the Ferula. Adults, active from June to August, are diurnal and anthophilous (can be found mostly on Ferula) [❖].

Body length:	♂♂ 14 - 24 mm / ♀♀ 16 - 30 mm
Life cycle:	unknown
Adults in:	June - August
Host plant:	probably in roots of herbaceous plants [?? Ferula spp., Apiaceae]
Distribution:	Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan

The depicted beetle was collected in Sary-Chelek Lake environs (1860 m a.s.l, Sary-Chelek Nature Reserve, Jalal-Abad province, West Kyrgyzstan) on July 11, 2016.

Collected by M.Krejčíř

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[▽]
Pic M.:
Catalogue bibliographique et synonymique des Longicornes d'Europe et des régions avoisinantes comprenant les régions suivantes: Région circaméditerranéenne. Région caucasique. Région transcaspienne. La Perse, le Turkestan, la Sibérie.
Matériaux pour servir à l'étude des Longicornes 3 (2): 11-66, 1900.
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[✧]
Pic M.:
Notes sur divers genres ou espèces avec diagnoses.
Matériaux pour servir à l'étude des Longicornes 6 (1): 4-14, 1906.
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[❖]
Danilevsky M.L.:
Longicorn beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycoidea) of Russia and adjacent countries. Part 1.
Higher School Consulting, Moscow, 550pp [page 103-104], 2014.
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