Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: PARMENINI
[Photo © David Navrátil]
Parmena bicincta, a not commmon species occuring countries of the eastern Adriatic, has been described from Kotor environs (Montenegro) by Heinrich Carl Küster in 1849 [❖]. Larvae of P. bicincta develop in branches, stems and roots of both herbaceous and woody plants (reported in Euphorbia spp., Ficus carica, Crithmum maritimum, Agave americana). Adults, crepuscular and nocturnal, can be found on the host plants after dusk. Species was included into a newly estabilihed subgenus Pilosoparmena by Maxim A. Lazarev in 2024 [✮].
Body length: 5 - 9 mm Life cycle: 1 year Adults in: March - September Host plant: polyphagous in both herbaceous and woody plants (Euphorbia spp., Ficus carica, Crithmum maritimum, Agave americana etc.) Distribution: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro
The depicted mounted beetles were reared form larvae found in Euphorbia wulfenii stalks in Mikuliči environs (280 m a.s.l., Dubrovnik-Neretva county/Dubrovačko-neretvanska županija, South Dalmatia, Croatia) on July 28, 2014. The living specimen was collected in Đurmani village environs (N42°09′18″ E19°01′23″; Bar municipality, Montenegro) on June 12, 2018.Collected by David Navrátil and Tamás Németh
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Küster H.C.:
Die Käfer Europas. Nach der Natur beschrieben. Mit Beiträgen mehrerer Entomologen.
Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, Volume 18: n° 1-100, 1849. [download]
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Kovács T.:
Two new host plant species of Parmena bicincta Küster, 1849 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Folia Historico Naturalia Musei Matraensis 36: 29-30, 2012. [download[✮]
Lazarev M.:
Taxonomic notes on longhorned beetles with the descriptions of several new taxa (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). Part II.
Humanity space International almanac 13 (8): 712-718, 2024. [download
[Photo © Tamás Németh]
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Parmenini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Parmena Dejean, 1821 |
| Subgenus | Pilosoparmena Lazarev, 2024 |
| Species | Parmena (Pilosoparmena) bicincta (Küster, 1849) |