Deilus rugosicollis differs from the sister species Deilus fugax (Olivier, 1790) for the particular wrinkled pronotum, only punctate in D. fugax. Elytra are without any erect hair and covered by denser yellowish pubescence. Deilus rugosicollis, which has almost identical bionomy to Deilus fugax, has been described by Pierpaolo Rapuzzi and Gianfranco Sama in 2012 [❖].

Body length:	6 - 110 mm
Life cycle:	1 - 2 years
Adults in:	March - May
Host plant:	Fabaceae (Cytisus, Spartium)
Distribution:	Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey

The depicted mointed beetle was collected in Al Kabor W of Rabiah (Syria) on May 5, 2006. The living specimen was reared from larva collected in Lebanon.

Collected by V.Skoupý and Tamás Németh

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Rapuzzi P. and Sama G.:
New taxa and new records of longhorn-beetles from Eastern Mediterranean region (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Munis Entomology & Zoology 7 (2): 663-689, 2012. [download ]