Iranocoptosia fausti, an interesting Irano-Anatolian species occuring in Iran and Turkmenistan, has been described from "Persia" as
Phytoecia (Coptosia) Fausti by Ludwig Ganglbauer in 1886 [▽]. The same species was described again from Iran as
Iranocoptosia balachowskyi by André Villiers in 1967, who also established a new genus Iranocoptosia for this taxon [✧].
The synonymy was published by Mikhail Danilevsky in 1993 [❖].
| Body length: | 8 - 14 mm |
| Life cycle: | 1 year |
| Adults in: | April - May |
| Host plant: | Crambe cordifolia kotschyana (Brassicaceae) [❖][✮] |
| Distribution: | Iran, Turkmenistan |
The depicted mounted female beetle was collected in Magtymguly (formerly Kara-Kala / Кара-Кала) environs (Balkan province, SW Turkmenistan)
on May 20, 1975.
Collected by Vladimir Gdalich Dolin
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Ganglbauer L.:
Neue und weniger bekannte Longicornier des paläarktischen Faunengebietes.
Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 35: 515-524, [1885] 1886.
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Villiers A.:
Contribution à la faune de l'Iran. I. - Coléoptères Cerambycidae.
Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 3 (2): 327-379, 1967.
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Danilevsky M.L.:
Some preliminary results of the type-material study of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Paris.
Russian Entomological Journal 2 (1): 47-50, 1993.
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Prina A.O.:
Taxonomic review of the genus Crambe sect. Crambe (Brassicaceae, Brassiceae).
Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 66 (1): 7-24, 2009.
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