Pogonarthron semenovianum, a very rare and not often collected species known only from South Tajikistan and North Afghanistan, has been described from Buchara environs (Tajikistan) as Prionus semenovianus by Nikolai N. Plavilstshikov in 1936 [❖]. The best known locality of the species are very dry hilly steppes in around Kulob/Кӯлоб (900 - 1000 m a.s.l). The vast majority of known specimens were caught during deep, hot nights at the turn of July and August [✧].

Body length:	26 - 34 mm
Life cycle:	unknown
Adults in:	June - August
Host plant:	unknown
Distribution:	North Afghanistan, Tajikistan

The depicted male beetle was collected in Tughmagi (Туғмагӣ) village environs (900 m a.s.l, 10 km S of Kulob, Khatlon region, Tajikistan) on August 8, 2008.

Collected by Oleg V. Pak

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[❖]
Plavilstshikov N.N.:
Faune de l'URSS. Insectes Coléoptères. Cerambycidae (P. 1).
Moscou-Leningrad. Fauna SSSR 21 (1): i-ix + 1-611, 1936. [download ]

[✧]
Danilevsky M.L.:
Longicorn beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycoidea) of Russia and adjacent countries. Part 1.
Higher School Consulting, Moscow, 550pp [page 62], 2014. [download ]

Danilevsky M.L. and Komiya Z.:
Pogonarthron (Multicladum subgen. n.) and a female of Pogonarthron (Pseudomonocladum Villiers, 1961, stat. nov.) minutum (Pic, 1905) (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Humanity space - International Almanac 3 (2): 267-271, 2014. [download ]

Danilevsky M.L.:
Review of genus Pogonarthron Semenov, 1900 with a description of a new species (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Les Cahiers Magellanes 40: 1-14, 2004. [download ]

Kadyrov A.K., Karpiński L., Szczepański W.T., Taszakowski A. and Walczak M.:
New data on distribution, biology, and ecology of longhorn beetles from the area of west Tajikistan (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
ZooKeys 606: 41-64, 2016. [download ]