Crossotus arabicus, a species distributed in Arabian Peninsula, has been described from Lahej (Yemen) by Charles Joseph Gahan in 1896 [▽].
| Body length: | 14 - 16 mm |
| Life cycle: | 2 - 3 years |
| Adults in: | May - October [?] |
| Host plant: | Vachellia spp. (= former Acacia) |
| Distribution: | Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen [❖] |
Depicted mounted beetle was reared from larva found in Vachellia branch collected in Jabal al Fatk (191 m a.s.l., Hawf NE Al Ghaydah, Yemen) on April 2, 2007.
The living beetle was reared from larva found in Oman in 2020.
Collected by Petr Kabátek
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Gahan Ch.J.:
On Coleoptera from Aden and Somaliland.
The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London 6 (18) 108: 448-461, 1896.
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Sama G:
Descrizione di un nuovo Crossotus Serville, 1835 del Medio Oriente (Insecta Coleoptera Cerambycidae).
Quaderni di Studi e Notizie di Storia Naturale della Romagna 13 (supplemento): 107-112, 2000.
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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.
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Ambrus R., Grosser W.:
Contribution to the knowledge of longhorn beetles from Dhofar region in sultanate of Oman (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Humanity Space International Almanac 1 (2): 448-457, 2012.
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