Phytoecia melanocephala, a species occuring in Maghreb and Sicily, has been described from Africa as Saperda melanocephala
by Johann Christian Fabricius in 1787 [▽]. Taxon was moved to the restituted subgenus Obereina Ganglbauer, 1886
by Mikhail Danilevsky in 2018 [✩].
| Body length: | 11 – 12 mm |
| Life cycle: | 1 year |
| Adults in: | May - June |
| Host plant: | Lamiaceae (Marrubium vulgare,
Lavandula multifida) [❖] |
| Distribution: | Italy (Sicily), Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia |
The depicted beetle was collected in Jabal ash-Sha‘ānabī Mt. environs (جبل الشعانبي; 24km W Kasserine, Kasserine governorate, Tunisia) on May 29-30, 2005.
Collected by P.Kabátek
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Fabricius J.C.:
Mantissa insectorum sistens eorum species nuper detectas adiectis characteribus genericis, differentiis specificis, emendationibus, observationibus.
Proft, Hafniae, 1: 348pp [page 148], 1787.
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Danilevsky M.L.:
A new Palaearctic subgenus of genus Phytoecia Dejean, 1835 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Zootaxa 4521 (1): 129-132, 2018.
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Sama G., Ringenbach J.-C. and Rejzek M.:
A preliminary survey of the Cerambycidae of Lybia (Coleoptera).
Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France, Paris 110 (4/5): 439-454, 2005.
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