Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: PARMENINI
[Photo © David Navrátil]
This endemic Cretan Parmena species, belonging to Parmena pubescens group, was described by Gianfranco Sama in 1986 [❖]. Taxon was included into a newly estabilihed subgenus Pilosoparmena by Maxim A. Lazarev in 2024 [✮].
Body length: 6 - 9 mm Life cycle: 1 - 2 years Adults in: April - August Host plant: Euphorbia, Astragalus, Nerium oleander Distribution: endemic species to Crete
The depicted beetles were collected at night on Euphorbia wulfenii in Theriso gorge (322 m a.s.l., Chania region, Crete, Greece) on June 25, 2018.Collected by David Navrátil
[❖]
Sama G.:
Studi sul genere Parmena Latreille, 1829. III - P. slamai n. sp. di Creta (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Acta Coleopterologica 1: 23-24, 1986. [download]
[✮]
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. [download
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Parmenini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Parmena Dejean, 1821 |
| Subgenus | Pilosoparmena Lazarev, 2024 |
| Species | Parmena (Pilosoparmena) slamai Sama, 1986 |