Clytus schneideri, a species occuring in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Israel and NE Turkey, has been described from Borjomi (Georgia) environs by Ernest August Hellmuth von Kiesenwetter
in 1879 [✧]. Its subspecies C. schneideri inapicalis, endemic to North-East Turkey, has been described from Erzurum environs as Clytus inapicalis by Maurice Pic in 1895 [✮].
Downgraded to a subspecific level was by Gianfranco Sama in 1996 [✩]-
Body length: | 6 - 11 mm |
Life cycle: | 2 years [?] |
Adults in: | May - July |
Host plant: | Quercus spp. |
Distribution: | an endemic subspecies to North-East Turkey [❖] |
The depicted beetle was collected on oak (Quercus sp.) logs in Uzundere environs (Erzurum Province, Eastern Anatolia, Turkey) on June 5, 1992.
Collected by Michal Hoskovec
[✮]
Pic M.:
Descriptions de Longicornes d'Arménie et régions voisines.
L'Échange, Revue Linnéenne 11 (124): 38-40, 1895.
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[✧]
Kiesenwetter E.A.H. in Schneider O. and Leder H.:
Beiträge zur Kenntniss der kaukasischen Käferfauna.
W. Burkart, Brünn [1878]: 360pp, 1879.
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[✩]
Sama G.:
Contribution à la connaissance des Longicornes de Grèce et d'Asie Mineure (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Biocosme Mésogéen, Nice 12 (4) [1995]: 101-116, 1996.
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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.
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