This interesting and very rare Caucasian member of Clytini tribe, originally described by Edmund Reitter as Clytus vesparum from Talysh in 1889 [✧], was later moved into a new genus Sphegoclytus [❖] estabilished by Gianfranco Sama in 2005 [✝]. Currently, Sphegoclytus Sama, 2005 is considered a subgenus of the genus Clytus.

Body length:	10 - 18 mm
Life cycle:	2 years [?]
Adults in:	May - July
Host plant:	unknown
Distribution:	Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkey

The depicted beetle was captured in in Kīnj (كينج‎) village environs (1550-1600 m a.s.l., Kojur District, Nowshahr County, Mazandaran province, Iran) on May 20 -21, 2017.

Collected by David Navrátil

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[✧]
Reitter E:
Neue Coleopteren aus Europa, den angrenzenden Ländern und Sibirien, mit Bemerkungen über bekannte Arten. Achter Theil.
Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift, Berlin 33 (2): 369-376, 1889. [download ]

[❖]
Özdikmen H., Turgut S.:
A synopsis of Turkish Clytus Laicharting, 1784 and Sphegoclytus Sama, 2005 with zoogeographical remarks (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae).
Munis Entomology & Zoology Journal 4 (2): 353-370, 2009. [download ]

[✝]
Sama G.:
Description of Sphegoclytus new genus of Clytini from Caucasus (Insecta, Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Aldrovandia 1: 69-70, 2005. [download ]