[= Sternoplistes kashmirensis Pic, 1906]
Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE / Tribus: TRACHYDERINI
[Photo © David Navrátil, click on the picture for 4K resolution]
Purpuricenus montanus, a beautiful species known from high mountain regions of North-West China, Afghanistan, North India and Pakistan, has been described from "Himalaya Mts." by Adam White in 1853 [▽].
Body length: 11 – 16 mm Life cycle: 2 - 3 years Adults in: June - July Host plant: polyphagous in deciduous trees Distribution: West China, Afghanistan, North India, Pakistan
The depicted mounted beetle were collected in: ♂A+♀ – Uccha-Tikkar village environs (2067 m a.s.l., Sirmaur district, Himachal Pradesh, India) on June 9–15, 2016; ♂B – Kalam Valley (2800 m a.s.l., Swat district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan) in June 1998.Collected by Walter Grosser
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White A.:
Longicornia I.
Catalogue of the coleopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum 7: 1-174, 1853. [download]
Ambrus R. and Tichý T.
New and interesting records of the tribe Purpuricenini J. Thomson, 1861 from China and neighbouring countries (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Les Cahiers Magellanes 25: 85-105, 2017
| Subfamilia | Cerambycinae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Trachyderini Dupont, 1836 |
| Genus | Purpuricenus Dejean, 1821 |
| Species | Purpuricenus montanus White, 1853 |