Anoplistes halodendri (Pallas, 1776)
ssp. minutus Hammarström, 1892
[= Asias halodendri minutus Hammarström, 1892][❖]
[= Anoplistes kozlovi (Semenov & Znoiko, 1934)]

Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE  /  Tribus: TRACHYDERINI

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[Photo © David Navrátil & 8K postprocessing Michal Hoskovec]

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Anoplistes halodendri minutus, a taxon occuring in China, Mongolia and Siberia, has been described from Mongolia as Anoplistes minutus by Finnish scientist Rudolf Edvard Hammarström in 1892 [▽]. The host plant and bionomy of this interesting longhorn beetle in Mongolian desert is well reported in work of Lech Karpiński et al. in 2018 [✧]. Anoplistes halodendri minutus is also the first documented case of sympatrically occurring ecotypes in Polyphaga and the second case of ecotypes in the family Cerambycidae. In the brilliant case study of Anoplistes halodendri and Anoplistes kozlovi (Lech Karpiński et. al, 2021) [★] authors thanks to precise analysis of the ecological data, DNA analyses, as well as a detailed morphological examination (study on the male genitalia including the endophallic structures), supported the hypothesis that these two entities, which were considered separate species, represent only ecologically adapted forms that are associated with rocky hills and sandy/gravelly plains, respectively. So, authors restored a synonym Anoplistes halodendri minutus Hammarström, 1892 = Asias kozlovi Semenov & Znojko, 1934, syn. res. Anoplistes halodendri minutus in arid zone of Mongolia occurs in two ecotypes: the "black" rock ecotype (RE) living in rocky ground habitats, and "red" sand ecotype (SE, = Anoplistes kozlovi) living in habitats with sandy/gravelly ground.

Body length:	7.6 - 12 mm
Life cycle:	2 - 3 years [?]
Adults in:	June - August
Host plant:	Caragana spp. (Fabaceae)
Distribution:	Mongolia, Siberia, North China

The depicted female beetles were collected: (RE) 50km SW Uliastai/Улиастай (Zavkhan province, West Mongolia) on July 16, 2005; (SE) 25 km NW of Sainshand (Сайншанд) (Dornogovi province, South-East Mongolia) on August 1, 2019,

Collected by Adolf Mikyška and Lech Kruszelnicki

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[▽]
Hammarström R.:
Bidrag till kännedom af sydvestra Sibiriens insektfauna. Förteckning öfver i Minusinska kretsen och angränsande delar af Mongoliet af K. J. Ehnberg och R. E. Hammarström sommaren 1885 insamlade Cerambycider.
Öfversigt af Finska Vetenskaps-Societetens Förhandlingar 34: 185-195, 1892. [download ]

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Karpiński L., Szczepański W.T., Boldgiv B. and Walczak M.:
New data on the longhorn beetles of Mongolia with particular emphasis on the genus Eodorcadion Breuning, 1947 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
ZooKeys 739: 107-150, 2018. [download ] 

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Özdikmen H.:
A nomenclatural act: some nomenclatural changes on palaearctic longhorned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Munis Entomology & Zoology 3 (2): 707-715, 2008. [download ]

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Karpiński L., Gorring P., Kruszelnicki L., Kasatkin D.G., Szczepański W.T.:
A fine line between species and ecotype: a case study of Anoplistes halodendri and A. kozlovi (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) occurring sympatrically in Mongolia.
Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 79: 1–23, 2021. [download ]

Karpiński L., Enkhnasan D., Boldgiv B., Kruszelnicki L., Iderzorig B., Gantulga T., Dorjsuren A. & Szczepański W.T.:
Longhorned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of southeastern Mongolia with particular emphasis on the genus Anoplistes Audinet-Serville, 1833 (Cerambycinae: Trachyderini).
Zootaxa 5081 (4): 451-482, 2021. [download ]

Semenov Tian-Shanskij A.P. and Znojko D.V.:
Note sur quelques espèces des genres Asias Sem. et Purpuricenus Srv. [Col. Cerambycidae].
Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 39 (15): 211-212, 1934. [download ]

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Subfamilia	Cerambycinae Latreille, 1802
Tribus	Trachyderini Dupont, 1836
Genus	Anoplistes Audinet-Serville, 1833
Species	Anoplistes halodendri (Pallas, 1776)
Subspecies	Anoplistes halodendri minutus Hammarström, 1892