Parmena mutilloides, a rare and unusually colored species of Parmena endemic to Turkey, was described from Beyşehir environs (Konya province) by Andrea Sabbadini and Carlo Pesarini in 1992 [✧]. Species was included into a newly estabilihed subgenus Pilosoparmena by Maxim A. Lazarev in 2024 [✮].

Body length:	6 - 8.5 mm
Life cycle:	unknown, but probably 1 - 2 years
Adults in:	adults hatch in June and as in other Parmena live for many months
Host plant:	probably polyphagous species (reported from Euphorbia spp. and Ficus carica)
Distribution:	a species endemic Turkey (collected in Antalya, İzmir and Konya provinces)

The beetle in these pictures was reared from a larva found in dead roots of a Euphorbia sp. in Akseki environs (Akseki district, Antalya province, Turkey) in June 2005.

Collected by our friend Petr Kabátek

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[✧]
Sabbadini A. and Pesarini C.:
Due nuove specie dei generi Parmena Latr. e Dorcadion Dalm. appartenenti alla fauna Turca (Coleoptera Cerambycidae).
Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 124 (1): 27-32, 1992. [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 ]