Clytus gulekanus, a rare species endemic to Turkey, has been described from Taurus Mts. (Turkey) by Maurice Pic in 1904 [✧]. The beetles develop in Ficus carica. Dead wood of larger living trunks is the preferred larval substrate of this species.

Body length:	6 - 17 mm
Life cycle:	2 - 3 years
Adults in:	June - July
Host plant:	Ficus carica
Distribution:	an endemic species to Turkey

The depicted beetle was collected on the trunk of a dying common fig tree (Ficus carica) in Namrun (SW Turkey).

Collected by our friend Jiří Mička

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Pic M.:
Diagnose d'un «Clytus» du mont Taurus.
L'Échange, Revue Linnéenne 20 (237): 65, 1904. [download ]

Özdikmen H., Turgut S.:
A synopsis of Turkish Clytus Laicharting, 1784 and Sphegoclytus Sama, 2005 with zoogeographical remarks (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae).
Munis Entomology & Zoology Journal 4 (2): 353-370, 2009. [download ]