[= Semnosia brevipes (Pic, 1897)]
Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: SAPERDINI
[Photo © David Navrátil & 8K postprocessing M.Hoskovec]
Mallosia brevipes, a species occuring in Armenia, West Iran and Eastern Turkey, has been described from "Persia" (Iran) by Maurice Pic in 1897 [▽].
Body length: 15 - 40 mm Life cycle: 1 year Adults in: May - June Host plant: Ferula spp. and Prangos ferulacea Distribution: Armenia, Iran, Turkey
The depicted mounted beetles and live female were collected on the host plant in Saghmosavank (Սաղմոսավանք) environs (1800-2000 m a.s.l., Ara leř Mt. south slopes, Aragatsotn Province, Armenia) on May 25 - June 7, 2013. The depicted living male was collected on the host plant (Prangos ferulacea) in Karakurt Bucağı village environs (1450 m a.s.l.; 21 km SE of Sarıkamış, Kars province, East Turkey) on June 9, 2011.Collected by David Navrátil and Michal Hoskovec
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Pic M.:
Descriptions de Coléoptères asiatiques de la famille des Cerambycidae.
Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France, Paris 22 (14-15): 188-190, 1897. [download]
Danilevsky M.L.:
New taxa of the genus Mallosia (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) from Transcaucasia.
Acta Entomologica Bohemoslovaca 87: 363-367, 1990. [downloadÖzdikmen H. and Aytar F.:
Subgeneric arrangement of Mallosia Mulsant, 1862 with three new subgenera, and a new species from Turkey (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Munis Entomology & Zoology 7 (2): 653-662, 2012. [download
Mallosia brevipes ♂ [Photo © M.Hoskovec]
Mallosia brevipes ♀ [Photo © David Navrátil]
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Saperdini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Mallosia Mulsant, 1863 |
| Subgenus | Eumallosia Danilevsky, 1990 |
| Species | Mallosia (Eumallosia) brevipes Pic, 1897 |