Anoplistes jacobsoni Baeckmann, 1904
[= Asias jacobsoni (Baeckmann, 1904)][❖]

Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE  /  Tribus: TRACHYDERINI
Anoplistesjacobsoni

[Photo © Maxim E. Smirnov]



Anoplistes jacobsoni, an endemic species to Kazakhstan, has been described from Perovsk (now Kyzylorda, Kazakhstan) by Julius Ivanovitch Baeckmann in 1904 [▽]. Larvae of this rare beetle, which is known only from several localities along the lower and middle course of the Syr Darya River in South Kazakhstan, are developing in living thin stems and branches of Halimodendron halodendron. Interesting details about the bionomy of A. jacobsoni were reported by Lech Karpiński et al. in 2018 [✧].

Body length:11 - 14 mm
Life cycle:2 years [?]
Adults in:May - June
Host plant:monophagous in Halimodendron halodendron (Fabaceae)
Distribution:an endemic species to South Kazakhstan


The depicted male beetle was collected in Tartogay (Тартоғай) village environs (Syrdarya river environs, Kyzylorda region, South Kazakhstan) on June 13, 2015.

Collected by A.Schapovalov


[▽]
Baeckmann J.I.:
Anoplistes jacobsoni, sp. nov., aus Turkestan (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Revue Russe d'Entomologie, Saint-Petersbourg 6: 311-312, 1904. [download pdf icon]

[✧]
Karpiński L., Szczepański W.T., Plewa R., Walczak M., Hilszczański J., Kruszelnicki L., Łoś K., Jaworski T., Bidas M. and Tarwacki G.:
New data on the distribution, biology and ecology of the longhorn beetles from the area of South and East Kazakhstan (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
ZooKeys 805: 59-126, 2018. [download pdf icon]

[❖]
Özdikmen H.:
A nomenclatural act: some nomenclatural changes on palaearctic longhorned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Munis Entomology & Zoology 3 (2): 707-715, 2008. [download pdf icon]



 
SubfamiliaCerambycinae Latreille, 1802
TribusTrachyderini Dupont, 1836
GenusAnoplistes Audinet-Serville, 1833
SpeciesAnoplistes jacobsoni Baeckmann, 1904