ssp. balcanica Sláma, 2019
Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: AGAPANTHIINI
[Photo © Petr Jelínek]
Agapanthia asphodeli, a species widely distributed in Mediterranean region, has been described from Bordeaux environs (France) as Lamia asphodeli by Pierre-André Latreille in 1804 [✱]. Its subspecies A. asphodeli balcanica, known from Greece, has been described by Milan E. F. Sláma from Villia environs (Attiki, Greece) in 2019 [❖].
Body length: 14 - 20 mm Life cycle: 1 year Adults in: April - June Host plant: asphodels (Asphodelus spp., Xanthorrhoeaceae) Distribution: Greece
The depicted beetle was collected on the host plant (Asphodelus microcarpus) near Mandra (Μάνδρα) (Abdera municipal unit, Xanthi regional unit, East Macedonia and Thrace, NE Greece).Collected by Petr Jelínek
[✱]
Latreille P.-E.:
Histoire Naturelle, Générale et particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes.
Imprimerie F. Dufart, Paris 11, 424pp, 1804. [download]
[❖]
Sláma M.E.F.:
A description of two new subspecies of European Longhorn-Beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Humanity space International almanac 8 (2): 208-214, 2019. [download
[Photo © Petr Jelínek]
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Agapanthiini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Agapanthia Audinet-Serville, 1835 |
| Subgenus | Epoptes Gistl, 1857 |
| Species | Agapanthia (Epoptes) asphodeli (Latreille, 1804) |
| Subspecies | Agapanthia (Epoptes) asphodeli balcanica Sláma, 2019 |