Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: SAPERDINI
[Photo © Michal Hoskovec]
Phytoecia (Musaria) kurdistana, a widely distributed SW-Asian species known from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, and Turkey, has been described from "Persisch-Kurdistan" (North-West Iran) by Ludwig Ganglbauer in 1884 [▽]. So far, all specimens of P. kurdistana we found only on Eryngium sp. (Sea-holly; Apiaceae), which probably serves as a host plant of this remarkable species.
Body length: 12 - 22 mm Life cycle: 1 year Adults in: May - July Host plant: Eryngium sp. (Sea-holly; Apiaceae) Distribution: Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Turkey
The depicted living specimens were collected and photographed on the host plant (Eryngium): (MH) - close to Dzori Taguhin Hotel ca 6.5 km E of Vayk (N39°41′34″ E45°32′26″; 1320 m a.s.l., Vayots Dzor Province, SE Armenia) on June 12, 2012; (PJ) - 3 km E of Morvārīd (مرواريد) village environs (N34°52′29″ E47°00′04″; 2250 m a.s.l., Central district of Kamyaran county, Kordestan province, Iran) on June 6, 2019.Collected by Michal Hoskovec and Petr Jelínek
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Ganglbauer L.:
Bestimmungs-Tabellen der europäischen Coleopteren. VIII. Cerambycidae. (Schluss.) Mit Berücksichtigung der Formen Algiers und des paläarktischen Asiens, exclusive jener von Japan.
Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 33 [1883]: 437-586 [page 572], 1884. [download]
[Photo © Petr Jelínek]
[Photo © Michal Hoskovec]
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Saperdini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Phytoecia Pic, 1892 |
| Subgenus | Musaria J. Thomson, 1864 |
| Species | Phytoecia (Musaria) kurdistana Ganglbauer, 1884 |