Agapanthia frivaldszkyi, a species occuring in Balkan Peninsula, Near East and Turkey, has been described from "Kleinasien"
(Asia Minor) by Ludwig Ganglbauer in 1884 [▽].
The taxonomy of the subgenus Smaragdula Pesarini & Sabbadini, 2004 is very complicated and there are many very contradictory views among cerambycidologists regarding the validity and
real existence of many taxa. A comprehensive and detailed revision of the Smaragdula by our colleague and friend Karel Hodek from the summer of 2021 attempts to answer many
questions concerning this issue [❖].
| Body length: | 7.5 - 13 mm |
| Life cycle: | 1 year |
| Adults in: | May - June |
| Host plant: | Knautia sp. [?] |
| Distribution: | Bulgaria, Romania, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Turkey [✧] |
The depicted mounted male beetle was collected in Side environs (Manavgat district, Antalya Province, SW Turkey) on May 25-31, 2017. The living specimen
was collected on Knautia sp. in Dezli (دزلی) village environs (Central District of Sarvabad county, Kurdistan province, Iran) on June 6, 2018.
Collected by S.Svetlov and P.Jelínek
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Ganglbauer L.:
Bestimmungs-Tabellen der europäischen Coleopteren. VIII. Cerambycidae. (Schluss.) Mit Berücksichtigung der Formen Algiers und des paläarktischen Asiens, exclusive jener von Japan.
Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 33 [1883]: 437-586, 1884.
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Hodek K.:
Review of the subgenus Smaragdula Pesarini & Sabbadini, 2004, and two new species from Turkey (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Laminae, Agapanthiini)
Natura Somogyiensis 36: 81-110, 2021.
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Özdikmen H.:
Turkish Agapanthiini Mulsant, 1839 with identification keys (Coleoptera: Lamiinae).
Munis Entomology & Zoology 8 (1): 9-40, 2013.
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