Trichoferus ilicis Sama, 1987
Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE / Tribus: HESPEROPHANINI
Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE / Tribus: HESPEROPHANINI
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Trichoferus ilicis, a rare species endemic Morocco, has been described from Ain Leuh environs (Ifrane province) by Gianfranco Sama in 1987 [❖]. T. ilicis is very similar to Trichoferus fasciculatus (Faldermann, 1837), from which it differs at first glance by the dark coloring of the background of the elytra on which a very unevenly distributed whitish pubescence is very clearly visible (with very often a glabrous zone in the posterior third of the elytra). Its larva develops in living branches (2 to 4 cm in diameter) of Quercus ilex [✮]. |
Subfamilia | Cerambycinae Latreille, 1802 |
Tribus | Hesperophanini Mulsant, 1839 |
Genus | Trichoferus Wollaston, 1854 |
Species | Trichoferus ilicis Sama, 1987 |