Agapanthia fallax is a species endemic to Turkey [✧]. According to Rejzek et al. [❖] Agapanthia fallax develops in Scorzonera sp. (Asteraceae). To the best of our knowledge the species has never been collected outside its type locality.

Body length:	8 - 12 mm
Life cycle:	1 year
Adults in:	May - June
Host plant:	Scorzonera sp. (Asteraceae)
Distribution:	a species endemic to Turkey

The depicted beetle was collected in Buğlan Geçidi (Buglan Pass) (1600 m a.s.l., Solhan environs, Muş province, East Turkey) on May 31, 2011.

Collected by Zdeněk Košťál

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[✧]
Holzschuh C.:
Neue bockkäfer aus Pakistan, Iran, Anatolien und Mazedonien (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Zeitschrift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Österreichischer Entomologen 25 (3/4): 1973 (1974). [download ]

[❖]

Rejzek M., Sama G., Alziar G.:
Host plants of several herb-feeding Cerambycidae mainly from east Mediterranean region (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Biocosme Mésogéen 17 (4): 263-294, 2001. [download ]