Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE / Tribus: MOLORCHINI
[Photo © David Navrátil & 8K postprocessing M.Hoskovec]
Molorchus monticola, a species with a limited occurrence to Transcaucasia, has been described as Molorchus minor var. monticola by Nikolai N. Plavilstshikov in 1931 [▽].
Body length: 8 - 11 mm Life cycle: 1 - 2 years Adults in: May - June Host plant: polyphagous in deciduous trees (Prunus, Carpinus, Fagus etc.) Distribution: Azerbaijan (Talysh), Armenia, North Iran, Turkmenistan
The depicted beetles were beaten from blossoming hawthorn (Crataegus sp.) in: ♂ Zānūs (زانوس) village environs (1730 m a.s.l., Kojur district, Nowshahr county, Māzandarān province, Iran) on May 21, 2017; ♀ Lichk (Լիճք,) village environs (1772 m a.s.l., Zangezur Mts., Syunik Province, South Armenia) on June 1, 2017.Collected by David Navrátil
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Plavilstshikov N.N.:
Cerambycidae I. Cerambycinae : Disteniini, Cerambycini 1 (Protaxina, Spondylina, Asemina, Saphanina, Achrysonina, Oemina, Cerambycina).
Bestimmungs-Tabellen der europäischen Coleopteren, Troppau 100: 1-102, 1931. [download]
| Subfamilia | Cerambycinae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Molorchini Mulsant, 1863 |
| Genus | Molorchus Fabricius, 1793 |
| Subgenus | Caenoptera C.G. Thomson, 1859 |
| Species | Molorchus (Caenoptera) monticola Plavilstshikov, 1931 |