Parmena balearica, a rare species endemic to Balearic Islands, was described from Sa Coma de n'Arbona environs (Mallorca) by Eduardo Vives in 1998 [❖].
Species was included into a newly estabilihed subgenus Pilosoparmena by Maxim A. Lazarev in 2024 [✮].
| Body length: | 8 - 12 mm |
| Life cycle: | 1 year |
| Adults in: | December - July |
| Host plant: | Helleborus foetidus, Euphorbia characias, Nerium oleander |
| Distribution: | a subspecies endemic to Mallorca (Balearic Islands) |
The depicted beetle was reared from larva found in Helleborus foetidus branch in the type locality (Sa Coma de n'Arbona, Sóller, Mallorca lsland, Spain) on May 26, 2013.
Collected by our friend Marcos A. López
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Vives E.:
Notas sobre longicornios iberobaleares (X). Una nueva especie balear del género Parmena Dejean, 1821 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Bolletí de la Societat d'Història Natural de les Balears 41: 27-34, 1998.
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Lazarev M.:
Taxonomic notes on longhorned beetles with the descriptions of several new taxa (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). Part II.
Humanity space International almanac 13 (8): 712-718, 2024.
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