[= Agapanthia granulosa Chevrolat, 1881]
[= Agapanthia pubiventris Chevrolat, 1881]
Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: AGAPANTHIINI
[Photo © David Navrátil, click on the picture for 4K resolution]
Agapanthia irrorata, a relatively common and widely distributed species in South-West Mediterranean region, has been described from Algeria as Saperda irrorata by Johann Christian Fabricius in 1787 [❖]. The species was included in the newly established monotypic subgenus Drosotrichia by Carlo Pesarini and Andrea Sabbadini in 2004 [✧]. A. irrorata is a very variable species in appearance, the basic color is metallic black or blue-black with a number of yellow or white pubescent elytral spots, but some specimens have a very reduced number of spots or spots are completely missing. Larvae of A. irrorata develop in stems of many species of living herbaceous plants (Onopordon, Carduus, Salvia, Daucus, Thapsia, Ferula etc.) [✮][✳]. Adults, active from April to June, are diurnal and can be collected on the host plants.
Body length: 13 - 23 mm Life cycle: 1 year Adults in: April - June Host plant: polyphagous in herbaceous plants (Onopordon, Carduus, Salvia, Daucus, Thapsia, Ferula etc.) Distribution: Algeria, Corsica (France), Italy, Morocco, Portugal, Sardinia, Sicily, Spain, Tunisia
The depicted beetles were collected in: living specimens and mounted ♂A – Oulmes (أولماس / ⵓⵍⵎⴰⵙ) environs (N33°26′11″ W06°01′47″; 1090 m a.s.l., Middle Atlas Mts., Khémisset province, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra region, Morocco) on May 21, 2022 / May 12, 2023; ♂B + ♀ – Taounate (تاونات / ⵜⴰⵡⵏⴰⵜ) environs (N34°35′17″ W04°36′35″; 1090 m a.s.l., Rif Mts., Taounate province, Fès-Meknès region, Morocco) on April 15, 2024.Collected by David Navrátil and Petr Jelínek
[❖]
Fabricius J.Ch.:
Mantissa insectorum sistens eorum species nuper detectas adiectis characteribus genericis, differentiis specificis, emendationibus, observationibus.
Hafniae, Proft 1: xx + 348pp, 1787. [download]
[✧]
Pesarini C. and Sabbadini A.:
Osservazioni sulla sistematica della tribù Agapanthiini Mulsant, 1839 (Coleoptera Cerambycidae).
Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milano 145 (1): 117-132, 2004. [download[✳]
Villiers A.:
Coléoptères Cérambycides de l'Afrique du Nord.
Faune de l'Empire Français, ORSC Paris, 5: 1-152, 1946. [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
[Photo © Petr Jelínek]
[Photo © Petr Jelínek]
[Photo © Petr Jelínek]
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Agapanthiini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Agapanthia Audinet-Serville, 1835 |
| Subgenus | Stichodera Pesarini et Sabbadini, 2004 |
| Species | Agapanthia (Stichodera) irrorata (Fabricius, 1787) |