Phytoecia acridula, a species close to P. rufipes (Olivier, 1795) distributed in Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Tadjikistan, Uzbekistan), has been described from Tadjikistan by Carolus Holzschuh in 1981 [▽].

Body length:	8.2 - 11.5 mm
Life cycle:	1 year
Adults in:	April - May
Host plant:	unknown
Distribution:	Kyrgyzstan, Tadjikistan, Uzbekistan

The depicted beetle was collected in Hissor (حصار) environs (Hissor Range, Dushanbe-Javroz, Districts of Republican Subordination, Tadjikistan) on April 17, 1980.

Collected by O.Odvárka

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Holzschuh C.:
Zwanzig neue Bockkäfer aus Europa und Asien. (Cerambycidae, Col.).
Koleopterologische Rundschau, Wien 55: 91-112, 1981. [download ]