Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: AGAPANTHIINI
[Photo © Daniel Rydzi]
Agapanthia schurmanni, an endemic species to South-Eaastern of the Balcan peninsula, has been described from Macedonia (Greece) by Gianfranco Sama in 1978 [▽].
Body length: 13 - 23 mm Life cycle: 1 year Adults in: May - June Host plant: Asphodelus spp. Distribution: an endemic species to South-Eaastern of the Balcan peninsula (Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria [❖])
The depicted beetle was collected on Asphodelus in Mount Olympus (Όλυμπος) (Thessaly, Greece) on May 27, 2022.Collected by Daniel Rydzi
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Sama G.:
Una nuova specie di Agapanthia Serville di Macedonia (Coleoptera : Cerambycidae).
Bolletino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona 5: 505-513, 1978.[❖]
Georgiev G., Doychev D., Simov N., Guéorguiev B. and Bekchiev R.:
Contribution to the knowledge of (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of Belasitsa in Bulgaria.
Silva Balcanica 14 (1): 110–117, 2013. [download]
Pesarini C. and Sabbadini A.:
Osservazioni sulla sistematica della tribù Agapanthiini Mulsant, 1839 (Coleoptera Cerambycidae).
Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milano 145 (1): 117-132, 2004. [download
[Photo © Daniel Rydzi]
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Agapanthiini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Agapanthia Audinet-Serville, 1835 |
| Subgenus | Epoptes Gistl, 1857 |
| Species | Agapanthia (Epoptes) schurmanni Sama, 1978 |