Callimus akbesianus, a rare Middle Eastern species known from Israel, Syria and Turkey, was described from Akbez environs (Turkey, formerly Syria) by Maurice Pic in 1892 [✧].

Body length:	8 - 12 mm
Life cycle:	2 years [?]
Adults in:	April - June
Host plant:	polyphagous in deciduous trees (Quercus, Crataegus)
Distribution:	Israel, Syria, Turkey

This rare beetle was beaten from blossoming hawthorn (Crataegus sp.) in Erdemli environs (Mersin province, Turkey) in June 1999.

Colledted by Martin Rejzek

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Pic M.:
Séance du 27 avril 1892. Espèces et variétés nouvelles de Longicornes, recueillies par M. C. Delagrange dans son voyage dans le nord de la Syrie en 1891.
Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 61: cxi-cxii, 1892. [download ]

Özdikmen H.:
Members of the subfamily Stenopterini Gistel (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in Turkey with new host plants and distributional records.
Munis Entomology & Zoology 19 (supplement): 2761-2810, 2024. [download ]