Idactus bettoni, an interesting African faunistic element extending in the north of its distribution range to the Arabian Peninsula,
has been described from Samburu disctrict (Kenya) by Charles Joseph Gahan in 1898 [✧].
| Body length: | 9 – 14 mm |
| Life cycle: | 1 year [?] |
| Adults in: | depends on region |
| Host plant: | polyphagous in broadleaf trees and shrubs |
| Distribution: | Saudi Arabia, Africa (Botswana, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Kenya, Namibia, Somalia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe) |
Depicted mounted beetle was collected in Wādī an Nu‘mān (20 km W of At Taif/ اَلطَّائِفُ;
N21°16′2″ E40°13′15″; 820 m a.s.l., Mecca province, Saudi Arabia) on March 15 - 29, 2023.
Collected by Petr Kabátek
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Gahan Ch.J.:
Descriptions of new Longicorn Coleoptera from East Africa.
The Annals and Magazine of Natural History (2 ser.) 7 (7): 40-59, 1898.
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Holzschuh C. and Teocchi P.:
Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of Saudi Arabia: Part I, Lamiinae.
Fauna of Saudi Arabia 12 [1991]: 295-311, 1992.
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