[= Acanthophorus arabicus (Thomson, 1877)]
Subfamilia: PRIONINAE / Tribus: ACANTHOPHORINI
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Anthracocentrus arabicus, a species distributed in Arabian peninsula, Near East and North Africa, has been decribed from "Arabia" as Tithoes arabicus by James Thompson in 1877 [▽]. The biology of this remarkable species was described in detail by Martin Rejzek et al. in 2005 [✧] and also in paper by Oz Rittner in 2017 [❖].
Body length: 28 - 95 mm Life cycle: several years Adults in: June - October Host plant: Tamarix spp., Prosopis cineraria, Acacia spp., Senegalia senegal, Tipuana tipu [❖] Distribution: Algeria, Morocco, Eypt, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Yemen, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia
The depicted beetle were collected in: ♂ – sand desert in al-ʿAyn (ٱلْعَيْن) environs (Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) on October 3, 2008; ♀ – Al-Buraymī (ٱلْبُرَيْمِي) environs (Al-Buraymī governorate, Oman) on October 26, 2008.Collected by J. Huwayya
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Thomson T.:
Typi cerambycidarum musei Thomsoniani.
Revue et Magasin de Zoologie, Paris (3) 5 (40): 249-279, 1877. [download]
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Rejzek M., Gillett C.P.D.T., Drumont A. & Gillett M.P.T.:
On the distribution and biology of the genus Anthracocentrus Quentin & Villiers, 1983 in the Persian Gulf Region (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Prioninae).
Lambillionea 105 (3) 1: 353-369, 2005. [download[❖]
Rittner O.:
Observational notes on populations of Anthracocentrus arabicus (Thomson, 1877) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in Israel and a new host record.
Israel Journal of Entomology 47: 97-101, 2017. [download
| Subfamilia | Prioninae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Acanthophorini Thomson, 1864 |
| Genus | Anthracocentrus Quentin et Villiers, 1983 |
| Species | Anthracocentrus arabicus (Thomson, 1877) |