[= Conizonia (Coptosia) bithynensis (Ganglbauer, 1884)]
Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: SAPERDINI
[Photo © Michal Hoskovec]
Phytoecia (Paracoptosia) bithynensis, a species known from Bulgaria, Lebanon and Turkey, has been described from Bursa environs (Turkey) by Ludwig Ganglbauer in 1884 [✧]. Species was moved into a newly estabilished subgenus Paracoptosia by Mikhail Danilevsky in 2017 [✩]. Phytoecia (Paracoptosia) bithynensis was reported to be associated with Cynoglossum cf. foliosum (Boraginaceae) [❖].
Body length: 5 - 9 mm Life cycle: 1 year Adults in: May - June Host plant: Cynoglossum cf. foliosum, Anchusa Distribution: Bulgaria, Lebanon, Turkey
Depicted living beetle was photographed on its host plant - Anchusa italica in Buğlan Geçidi (Buglan Pass) environs (Muş province, East Turkey) on June 11, 2011.Collected by M.Hoskovec
[✧]
Ganglbauer L.:
Bestimmungstabellen europäischer Coleopteren: viii. Cerambycidae.
Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 33 [1883]: 437–586, 1884. [download]
[❖]
Rejzek M., Sama G., Alziar G., Sádlo J.:
Host Plants of Longhorn Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from the Balkan Peninsula, Asia Minor and Iran.
Biocosme Mésogéen 19 (3): 161-189, [2002] 2003. [download[✩]
Danilevsky M.L.:
A New Subgenus of the Longicorn Genus Phytoecia Dejean, 1835 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) from the Palaearctic Region.
Entomological Review 97 (8): 1137-1139, 2017. [downloadKasatkin D.G.:
A new subgenus of the genus Phytoecia Dejean, 1835 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae).
Russian Entomological Journal 24(2): 127-131, 2015. [download
[Photo © Michal Hoskovec]
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Saperdini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Phytoecia Pic, 1892 |
| Subgenus | Paracoptosia Danilevsky, 2017 |
| Species | Phytoecia (Paracoptosia) bithynensis Ganglbauer, 1884 |