Dorcadion drusum, species distributed in Near East countries (Israel, Lebanon and Syria), has been described from Syria by Lous Alexandre Chevrolat in 1870 [❖].

Body length:	12 - 15 mm
Life cycle:	1 year
Adults in:	April - May
Host plant:	roots of herbaceous plants and grass
Distribution:	Israel, Lebanon, Syria

The depicted beetle [❖] was collected on the ground in low vegetation in Ṣlenfah (صلنفة‎‎) environs (1390 m a.s.l., Latakia governorate, Syria) on April 25, 2005.

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[❖]
Chevrolat L.A.A.:
Séance du 9 novembre 1870. [Note contenant la description de deux Dorcadion nouveaux et des observations sur quelques autres espèces du même genre].
Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France, Paris 10: lxxxiv-lxxxvi, 1870. [download ]

Breuning S.:
Revision der Dorcadionini (Col. Ceramb.)
Abhandlungen und Berichte aus dem staatlichen Museum für Tierkunde in Dresden 27: 1-666, 1962. [download ]