Phytoecia rufipes, a species with a large area of occurrence (from Central Asia and Asia Minor to Western Europe), has been described from France as Saperda rufipes by Guillaume-Antoine Olivier in 1795 [▽].

Body length:	8 - 14 mm
Life cycle:	1 year
Adults in:	April - July
Host plant:	oligophagous in Apiaceae (Foeniculum, Ferula etc.)
Distribution:	Albania, Algeria, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine

The depicted mounted beetled were collected in Finca El Ardal at Linares (Jaén province, Andalusia, Spain) on June 1, 2013. The living specimens was photographed on the host plants in: (IP) - Estepona environs (Sierra Bermeja, Málaga province, Andalusia, Spain) on May 2, 2023; (PJ) - Kasristskali (კასრისწყალი) village environs (NP Vashlovani, Tskaro district, Kakheti Region, Eastern Georgia) on May 14, 2018.

Collected by Antonio Hidalgo, Ismael Pérez and Petr Jelínek

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Olivier G.-A.:
Entomologie ou Histoire Naturelle des Insectes, avec leurs caractères génériques et spécifiques, leur description, leur synonymie et leur figure enluminée.
Coléoptères, Imprimerie de Lanneau, Paris 4: 519pp, pages 1-124 (1795); 125-492 (1800). [download ]