Agapanthia annularis, a relatively common and widely distributed species in North Africa and south of Iberian peninsula, has been described from South Spain as Saperda annularis by Guillaume-Antoine Olivier in 1800 [❖]. The species was included in the newly established monotypic subgenus Drosotrichia by Carlo Pesarini and Andrea Sabbadini in 2004 [✧]. Larvae of A. annularis develop in stems of living Asteraceae plants, especially in thistles (e.g. Onopordon macracanthum) [✮]. Adults, active from May to June, are diurnal and can be collected on the host plants.

Body length:	7 - 15 mm
Life cycle:	1 year
Adults in:	May - June
Host plant:	polyphagous in herbaceous plants, especially on thistles (Asteraceae)
Distribution:	Portugal, Spain, Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia

The mountres specimens were collected in Bhalil (البهاليل) environs (690 m a.s.l., Sefrou province, Fès-Meknès region, Morocco) on April 14, 2024. The depicted living beetles were collected in: (IP) - Estepona environs (Sierra Bermeja, Málaga province, Andalusia, Spain) on May 2, 2023; (PJ)- Morocco on May 21, 2022.

Collected by David Navrátil, Ismael Pérez and Petr Jelínek

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[❖]
Olivier G.-A.:
Entomologie ou Histoire Naturelle des Insectes, avec leurs caractères génériques et spécifiques, leur description, leur synonymie et leur figure enluminée.
Coléoptères, Imprimerie de Lanneau, Paris 4: 1-519, 75 pls. Pages 1-124 (1795); 125-492 (1800). [download ]

[✧]
Pesarini C. and Sabbadini A.:
Osservazioni sulla sistematica della tribù Agapanthiini Mulsant, 1839 (Coleoptera Cerambycidae).
Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milano 145 (1): 117-132, 2004. [download ]

[✮]
Trócoli S.:
Actualización del catálogo de Longicornios de Marruecos Actualisation du catalogue des Longicornes du Maroc (Parte IV / Partie IV : Cerambycidae : Lamiinae).
Revue de l'Association Roussillonnaise d'Entomologie (R.A.R.E.) 29 (1): 26-65, 2020. [download ]