Microlera ptinoides, a tiny Cerambycid occuring in Kuril Islands (Russian Far East), Japan, and North Korea, has been described from Japan (Hyogo prefecture) by Henry Walter Bates in 1873 [▽].
The biology of the species is not sufficiently known [❖], it is probably a polyphagous species on deciduous trees - Henry W. Bates collected type specimens on dead branches of trifoliate orange
(Citrus trifoliata) in Japan.
| Body length: | 3.3 - 6.0 mm |
| Life cycle: | ? |
| Adults in: | June - August |
| Host plant: | unknown (probably a polyphagous species on deciduous trees) |
| Distribution: | Kuril Islands, Japan, North Korea |
The depicted mounted beetle (4 mm) was collected in Danilovo (Данилово) environs (N43°57′16″ E145°35′38″; ca 45 m a.s.l.,
Kurils Nature Reserve, Kunashir/Кунаши́р island, Kuril Islands, Yuzhno-Kurilsky district, Sakhalin region, Russia) on August 8, 2011.
Collected by Kirill V. Makarov
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Bates H.W.:
On the Longicorn Coleoptera of Japan.
The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London (4) 12 (71): 380-390, 1873.
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Cherepanov A.I.:
Cerambycidae of Northern Asia, Volume 3 - Laminae Part I.
Amerind Publishing, New Delhi: 300pp [pages 292-293], 1990.
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