Phytoecia puncticollis, a striking species occuring in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Turkey, and Turkmenistan, has been described from "Transcaucasia" by Franz Faldermann in 1837 [✮].

According to Martin Rejzek et al. [❖] in Turkey Phytoecia (Musaria) puncticollis develops in Eryngium billardieri (Apiaceae).

Body length:	11 - 23 mm
Life cycle:	1 year
Adults in:	May - June
Host plant:	Eryngium billardieri (Apiaceae)
Distribution:	Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Turkey, Turkmenistan

The depicted living beetles were collected on the host plant mountain valley in Güreşçi environs (Bitlis province, East Turkey) and in meadows at southern shore of Van Lake (3 km E of Tatvan, Bitlis province). The mounted female was collected in Siyazan district (Guba-Khachmaz region, Azerbaijan).

Collected by Michal Hoskovec and Denis Kasatkin

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[✮]
Faldermann F.:
Fauna entomologica Transcaucasica. Coleoptera 2. Longicornes vel Capricornes.
Nouveaux Mémoires de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 5: 261-321, 1837. [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 ]

Breuning S.:
Révision du genre Phytoecia Muls. (Col. Cerambycidae).
Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey 2 (1): 1-103, 1951. [download ]

Özdikmen H. and Turgut S.:
A review of the genus Musaria Thomson, 1864 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in Turkey with zoogeographical remarks.
Munis Entomology & Zoology 2 (2): 511-516, 2007. [download ]