Dorcadion (Acutodorcadion) pantherinum Jakovlev, 1899
ssp. desertum Danilevsky, 1995

Subfamilia: LAMIINAE  /  Tribus: DORCADIONINI

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Dorcadion pantherinum desertum ♂ [Photo © Petr Jelínek]

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Dorcadion pantherinum, an endemic species to Kazakhstan, has been decribed from Kazaly environs (Kazakhstan) by Vasiliy Ewgrafowitsch Jakovlev in 1899 [✱]. D. pantherinum desertum, a subspecies occuring on sands surrounding the Balkhash Lake, has been described by Mikhail Danilevsky in 1995 [❖].

Body length:	♂♂ 17 - 19.3 mm / ♀♀ 19.2 - 23.1 mm
Life cycle:	1 year
Adults in:	April - May
Host plant:	larvae feed on roots of various grass species (Poaceae)
Distribution:	an endemic taxon to Balkhash Lake environs in Kazakhstan

The depicted beetles were collected 4 km NW of Gulshat (Гүлшат) village (N46°39′29″ E74°19′51″; 360 m a.s.l., Karaganda region, Kazakhstan) on May 1, 2015.

Collected by Petr Jelínek

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[✱]
Jakovlev V.E.:
Quelques nouvelles espèces du sous-genre Compsodorcadion Ganglb.
Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae, St. Petersbourg 33 (1-2): 147-155, 1899. [download ]

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Danilevsky M.L.:
New Dorcadion Dalman, 1817 from Kazakhstan (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Lambillionea 95 (3): 420-428, 1995. [download ]

Toropov S.A., Milko D.A.:
Longhorns of the tribe Dorcadionini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) of Kazakhstan and Middle Asia.
SatEnto, Bishkek, 103pp, 2013. [download ]

Abramov A.:
A new subspecies of Dorcadion pantherinum Jakowleff, 1901 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from South Kazakhstan.
Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 14 (1): 37-39, 2018. [download ]

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Dorcadion pantherinum desertum ♂ [Photo © Petr Jelínek]

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Dorcadion pantherinum desertum ♀ [Photo © Petr Jelínek]

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Subfamilia	Lamiinae Latreille, 1825
Tribus	Dorcadionini Swainson, 1840
Genus	Dorcadion Dalman, 1817
Subgenus	Acutodorcadion Danilevsky, Kasatkin & Rubenian, 2004
Species	Dorcadion (Acutodorcadion) pantherinum Jakovlev, 1899
Subspecies	Dorcadion (Acutodorcadion) pantherinum desertum Danilevsky, 1995