Agapanthia frivaldszkyi, a species occuring in Balkan Peninsula, Near East and Turkey, has been described from "Kleinasien"
(Asia Minor) by Ludwig Ganglbauer in 1884 [▽].
The taxonomy of the subgenus Smaragdula Pesarini & Sabbadini, 2004 is very complicated and there are many very contradictory views among cerambycidologists regarding the validity and
real existence of many taxa. A comprehensive and detailed revision of the Smaragdula by our colleague and friend Karel Hodek from the summer of 2021 attempts to answer many
questions concerning this issue [❖].
| Body length: | 7.5 - 13 mm |
| Life cycle: | 1 year |
| Adults in: | May - June |
| Host plant: | Knautia sp. [?] |
| Distribution: | Bulgaria, Romania, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Turkey [✧] |
The depicted mounted male beetle was collected in Side environs (Manavgat district, Antalya Province, SW Turkey) on May 25-31, 2017. The living specimen
was collected on Knautia sp. in Dezli (دزلی) village environs (Central District of Sarvabad county, Kurdistan province, Iran) on June 6, 2018.
Collected by S.Svetlov and Petr Jelínek
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Ganglbauer L.:
Bestimmungs-Tabellen der europäischen Coleopteren. VIII. Cerambycidae. (Schluss.) Mit Berücksichtigung der Formen Algiers und des paläarktischen Asiens, exclusive jener von Japan.
Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 33 [1883]: 437-586, 1884.
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Hodek K.:
Review of the subgenus Smaragdula Pesarini & Sabbadini, 2004, and two new species from Turkey (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Laminae, Agapanthiini)
Natura Somogyiensis 36: 81-110, 2021.
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Özdikmen H.:
Turkish Agapanthiini Mulsant, 1839 with identification keys (Coleoptera: Lamiinae).
Munis Entomology & Zoology 8 (1): 9-40, 2013.
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