Procallimus semicyaneus, a very rare and not often collected species occuring in Greece and Turkey, has been described as Callimus semicyaneus from Taygetos Mts. (Peloponnese, Greece) by Maurice Pic in 1905 [❖]. Hüseyin Özdikmen divided this taxon into two subspecies in 2026 [✳].

Body length:	9 - 10 mm
Life cycle:	2 years
Adults in:	May - July
Host plant:	polyphagous in deciduous trees
Distribution:	Greece, Turkey [✮]

The mounted female was reared from larva found in Cotoneaster branch in Anogia (Ανώγεια) village environs (Sparta, Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece) in May 2025. The depicted living beetle was collected in the same locality on June 5, 2024.

Collected by Petr Papoušek and Robert Borek

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[❖]
Pic M.:
Notes Entomologiques et Descriptions.
L'Échange, Revue Linnéenne 21 (252): 185-187, 1905. [download ]

[✮]
Özdikmen H.:
The presence of Callimus semicyaneus Pic, 1905 in Turkey with new and overlooked data (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Munis Entomology & Zoology 16 (2): 816-818, 2021. [download ]

[✳]
Özdikmen H.:
A new subspecies of Callimus (Procallimus) semicyaneus Pic (Cerambycidae: Stenopterinae: Stenopterini) from Turkey.
Munis Entomology & Zoology 216 (1): 528-530, 2026. [download ]