Clytus madoni, one of less known and relatively little collected members of Clytini tribe from SE Mediterranean, has been described from "Palestine" by Maurice Pic in 1890 [❖].
| Body length: | 5 - 8 mm |
| Life cycle: | 1 - 2 years [?] |
| Adults in: | April - June |
| Host plant: | unknown, probably polyphagous in deciduous trees |
| Distribution: | Cyprus, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey |
The depicted beetle was captured in Krak des Chevaliers environs (Talkalakh district, Homs governorate, Syria) on April 18, 2008.
Collected by V. Skoupý
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Pic M.:
Séance du 10 décembre 1890. [Description d'un Longicorne nouveau].
Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France, Paris (6) 10: ccxi, 1890.
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Holzschuh C.:
Zur Synonymie palaearktischer Cerambycidae I. (Col.).
Koleopterologische Rundschau, Wien 52: 101-104, 1975.
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Özdikmen H. and Turgut S.:
A synopsis of turkish Clytus Laicharting, 1784 and Sphegoclytus Sama, 2005 with zoogeographical remarks (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae).
Munis Entomology & Zoology 4 (2): 353-370, 2009.
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