Crossotus tubericollis (Fairmaire, 1891)
[= Dichostathes tubericollis Fairmaire, 1891]
[= Crossotus robustus Jordan, 1894]
[= Crossotus bimaculatus Aurivillius, 1903]

Subfamilia: LAMIINAE  /  Tribus: CROSSOTINI

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Crossotus tubericollis, an Afrotropical taxon reaching the northern limit of occurrence as far as Morocco, has been described from Senegal as Dichostathes tubericollis by Léon Marc Herminie Fairmaire in 1891 [✧].

Body length:	14 - 20 mm
Life cycle:	2 years [?]
Adults in:	May - July
Host plant:	Vachellia, Argania
Distribution:	Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Malawi, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania, Western Sahara, Zambia [❖]

Depicted beetles were: ♂ - reared from larva found in dead Vachellia branch collected in Kasbah near Agadir (135 m a.s.l., Souss-Massa region, Morocco) on May 14, 2007; ♀ - reared from larva found in dead Vachellia gummifera branch collected in Tahanoute/Tehnut village environs (N30°30′10″ W09°36′14″; 200 m a.s.l., 9 km N of Agadir, Souss-Massa region, Morocco) in June 2023.

Collected by Petr Kabátek and Petr Papoušek

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[✧]
Fairmaire L.M.H.:
Notes sur quelques Coléoptères de l'Afrique intertropicale et descriptions d'espèces nouvelles.
Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, Paris (septième série) 60 (1): 231-274, 1891. [download ] 

Sudre J., Teocchi P., Sama G. & Rousset F.:
Les genres Crossotus, Biobessoides et Epidichostates (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Crossotini). Notes préliminaires pour une révision du genre Crossotus, avec remarques synonymiques et bionomiques sur les genre Corus, Biobessoides et Epidichostates.
Magellanes: Collection systématique 15: 1-80, 2007. [download ]

Trócoli S.:
Actualización del catálogo de Longicornios de Marruecos / Actualisation du catalogue des Longicornes du Maroc (Parte IV / Partie IV : Cerambycidae : Lamiinae).
Revue de l'Association Roussillonnaise d'Entomologie (R.A.R.E.) 29 (1): 26-65, 2020. [download ]

Adelbauer Karl and Beck R.:
Katalog und Fotoatlasder Bockkäfer Äthiopiens (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Taita Publishers, Hradec Králové, Czechia, 1-312, 2015.

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Subfamilia	Lamiinae Latreille, 1825
Tribus	Crossotini Thomson, 1864
Genus	Crossotus Audinet-Serville, 1835
Species	Crossotus tubericollis (Fairmaire, 1891)