Parmena cruciata, an endemic species to Iberian Peninsula developing in hellebore (Helleborus sp.), was described as
Parmena pubescens var. cruciata from Castillo de Monteagudo environs (Murcia, Spain) by Maurice Pic in 1912 [❖].
Species was included into a newly estabilihed subgenus Pilosoparmena by Maxim A. Lazarev in 2024 [✮].
| Body length: | 5 - 8 mm |
| Life cycle: | 1 year |
| Adults in: | February - August |
| Host plant: | Helleborus |
| Distribution: | an endemic species to Spain |
The depicted mounted beetle was reared from a larva found in hellebore (Helleborus sp.) in Pico Javalambre - Teruel (Sierra de Javalambre, Aragon, Spain) in June 2007.
The living specimens were reared from larvae found in Helleborus in Camarena de la Sierra (Teruel province, Aragon, Spain) on July 2, 2024.
Collected by Juan J. de la Rosa and Daniel Rydzi
[❖]
Pic M.:
Notes diverses et diagnoses.
Matériaux pour servir à l'étude des Longicornes 8 (2): 2-7, 1912.
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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.
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