Jordanoleiopus monoxenus, an Afrotropical species known from East Africa (which was recently discovered in Oman [✧]), has been described from Usambara Mts. (Tanzania) as Lepturges monoxenus by Hermann Julius Kolbe in 1893 [▽].
Body length: | 4.5 - 5 mm |
Life cycle: | 1 year |
Adults in: | September - November |
Host plant: | polyphagous on broadleaf trees and shrubs |
Distribution: | Oman and East Africa |
The depicted beetle was reared from larva found in Croton sp. 6 km W Dhalqut (N16°41′56″ E53°11′29″; 450 m a.s.l., Jebel Al-Qamar range, Dhofar Governorate, Oman) on January 21-22, 2018.
Collected by Petr Kabátek
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Kolbe H.J.:
Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Longicornier (Coleoptera). II. Ueber die von Herrn Leopold Conradt in Deutsch-Ostafrika auf der Plantage Derema in Usambara und in den benachbarten Küstengegenden gesammelten Arten.
Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 54 (7-9): 241-290, 1893.
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Ambrus R. and 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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