[= Parmena pubescens algirica Laporte de Castelnau, 1840]
Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: PARMENINI
[Photo © David Navrátil & 8K postprocessing M.Hoskovec]
Parmena algirica, a beautiful and rare taxon known from North Africa and South-Italian islands, has been described from Algerie ("Barbarie") by Francis Louis Laporte de Castelnau in 1840 [❖]. Opinions on whether Parmena algirica is a species, a subspecies, and even only a form of Parmena pubescens (Dalman, 1817) have changed over the years and are far from uniform among entomologists.
Body length: 8 - 12 mm Life cycle: 1 - 2 years Adults in: May - July Host plant: Ferula communis, Nerium oleander, Ficus carica, Ephorbia spp., Bupleurum spinosum [✧] Distribution: Algeria, Morocco, Sicily, Sardinia
The depicted beetles were collected in: ♂ ex larva Euphorbia dendroides, Buggerru environs (South Sardinia province, Sardinia, Italy), February 3, 2016; ♀ Ronda environs (Málaga province, Andalusia, Spain) on June 26, 1997.Collected by L.Skořepa and A.Verdugo
[❖]
Laporte de Castelnau F.L.:
Histoire Naturelle des Insectes Coléoptères.
Histoire Naturelle des Insectes Coléoptères P. Duménil, Paris, 2: 1-563 [page 485], 1840 [download]
[✧]
Trócoli S.:
Actualización del catálogo de Longicornios de Marruecos Actualisation du catalogue des Longicornes du Maroc (Parte IV / Partie IV : Cerambycidae : Lamiinae).
Revue de l'Association Roussillonnaise d'Entomologie (R.A.R.E.) 29 (1): 26-65, 2020 [download
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Parmenini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Parmena Dejean, 1821 |
| Species | Parmena algirica Laporte de Castelnau, 1840 |