Crossotus sublineatus Gestro, 1892
[= Crossotus (Crossotides) sennaariensis Hintz, 1912]
[= Crossotus marshalli Breuning, 1942]
[= Crossotus sahariensis Breuning & Villiers, 1960]
[= Crossotus somaliensis Breuning, 1972]

Subfamilia: LAMIINAE  /  Tribus: CROSSOTINI

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[Photo © David Navrátil, click on the picture for 4K resolution]

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Crossotus sublineatus, a remarkable desert species occuring in Arabian peninsula and Africa, has been described from Somalia by Raffaello Gestro in 1892 [✩]. In Morocco, larvae of C. sublineatus develop in wood of dying or freshly dead Vachellia tortilis raddiana [✮] .

Body length:	9 - 19 mm
Life cycle:	2 years [?]
Adults in:	depends on region
Host plant:	Vachellia spp. (Vachellia tortilis raddiana in Morocco)
Distribution:	Algeria, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Mauretania, Mali, Niger, Tchad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya

The depicted mounted beetles were reared from larvae found in Vachellia branches in: ♂ – 10 km W of Fayfa village (N17°15′37″ E43°04′07″; 660 m a.s.l., Faifa Mountains/جِبَالُ فَيْفَاءَ, Jazan province, Saudi Arabia) on October 20-22,2024; ♀ – Sidi Ahmed Laaroussi village (سيدي أحمد العروسي) environs (N26°51′ W11°56′; 140 m a.s.l, Es Semara province, Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra region, Western Sahara, Morocco) on May 8, 2011.

Collected by our friend Petr Kabátek

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[✩]
Gestro R.:
Di alcuni Coleotteri raccolti nel paese dei Somali dall'Ing. L. Bricchetti Robecchi.
Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale (Série 2) 12: 747-790, 1892. [download ]

[✮]
Trócoli S.:
Actualización del catálogo de Longicornios de Marruecos Actualisation du catalogue des Longicornes du Maroc (Parte IV / Partie IV: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae).
Revue de l'Association Roussillonnaise d'Entomologie (R.A.R.E.) 29 (1): 26-65, 2020. [download ]

Sudre J., Teocchi P., Sama G. & Rousset F.:
Les genres Crossotus, Biobessoides et Epidichostates (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Crossotini). Notes préliminaires pour une révision du genre Crossotus, avec remarques synonymiques et bionomiques sur les genre Corus, Biobessoides et Epidichostates.
Magellanes: Collection systématique 15: 1-80, 2007. [download ]

Rapuzzi P. and al Dhafer H.:
The Cerambycidae fauna of Saudi Arabia (Coleoptera).
Revue suisse de Zoologie 131 (1): 177-217, 2024. [download ]

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Subfamilia	Lamiinae Latreille, 1825
Tribus	Crossotini Thomson, 1864
Genus	Crossotus Audinet-Serville, 1835
Species	Crossotus sublineatus Gestro, 1892