Chlorophorus grosseri, an endemic and rare East Anatolian species, has been described from Şouth-Eastern Turkey by Gianfranco Sama and Pierpaolo Rapuzzi in 2011 [❖].
Ch. grosseri larvae develop in dying or freshly dead parts of living oaks (Quercus sp.). Females lay eggs to dead apical parts of small living branches or stumps
(2-5 cm in diameter) cut by people the previous year or girdled by other Cerambycidae [❖].
| Body length: | 9 - 10 mm |
| Life cycle: | 2 years [?] |
| Adults in: | May - July [?] |
| Host plant: | Quercus sp. |
| Distribution: | an endemic species to South-Eastern Turkey |
The depicted paratype beetle, found as freshly hatched immature adult in dead oak twig, was collected 2 km E of Gündeş (N37.32° E42.49°; 930 m a.s.l, Çukurca district, Hakkari province, Turkey) on June 22, 2010.
Collected by our friend Walter Grosser
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Sama G. and Rapuzzi P.:
Description of three new species of longhorn beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) from Turkey and Syria.
Biodiversity Journal 2 (2): 85-88, 2011.
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