Anoplistes halodendri minutus, a taxon occuring in European Russia, Mongolia and Siberia, has been described from Mongolia as
Anoplistes minutus by Finnish scientist Rudolf Edvard Hammarström in 1892 [▽]. The host plant and bionomy of this subspecies
in Mongolian desert is well reported in a recent work (2018) of Lech Karpiński et al. [✧].
Body length: | 10 - 14 mm |
Life cycle: | 2 - 3 years [?] |
Adults in: | June - August |
Host plant: | Caragana spp. (Fabaceae) |
Distribution: | European Russia, Mongolia, Siberia |
The depicted female beetle was collected 50km SW Uliastai/Улиастай (Zavkhan province, West Mongolia) on July 16, 2005.
Collected by A.Mikyška
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Hammarström R.:
Bidrag till kännedom af sydvestra Sibiriens insektfauna. Förteckning öfver i Minusinska kretsen och angränsande delar af Mongoliet af K. J. Ehnberg och R. E. Hammarström sommaren 1885 insamlade Cerambycider.
Öfversigt af Finska Vetenskaps-Societetens Förhandlingar 34: 185-195, 1892.
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Karpiński L., Szczepański W.T., Boldgiv B. and Walczak M.:
New data on the longhorn beetles of Mongolia with particular emphasis on the genus Eodorcadion Breuning, 1947 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
ZooKeys 739: 107-150, 2018.
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Özdikmen H.:
A nomenclatural act: some nomenclatural changes on palaearctic longhorned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Munis Entomology & Zoology 3 (2): 707-715, 2008.
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