Clytus arietis lederi, a subsppecies known from Transcaucasia (Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan), has been described from "Caucasus" as Clytus arietis var. lederi by Ludwig Ganglbauer in 1881 [▽].

Body length:	8 - 14 mm
Life cycle:	2 years
Adults in:	May - July
Host plant:	polyphagous in deciduous trees
Distribution:	Turkey [❖], Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan

The depicted mounted beetle (11 mm) was collected close to road from Tegran to Chalus (314 m a.s.l., 20 km to Chalus, Māzandarān province, Iran) on May 27, 2015. The living beetle was photographed in Sym (Сым) village environs (900 m a.s.l., Astara district, Lankaran region, Azerbaijan) on May 16, 2012.

Collected by Sergei O. Kakunin

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Ganglbauer L.:
Bestimmungs-Tabellen der europäischen Coleopteren. VII. Cerambycidae.
Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 31 [1881]: 681-758, 1882. [download ]

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Özdikmen H., Turgut S.:
A synopsis of Turkish Clytus Laicharting, 1784 and Sphegoclytus Sama, 2005 with zoogeographical remarks (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae).
Munis Entomology & Zoology Journal 4 (2): 353-370, 2009. [download ]