ssp. lederi Pic, 1899
Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: SAPERDINI
[Photo © Michal Hoskovec]
Phytoecia astarte, a widely distributed West-Asian species occuring from Iran to Lebanon, has been described from Asia Minor by Ludwig Ganglbauer in 1886 [✧]. Its the most common subspecies P. astarte lederi, known from Caucasus, Transcaucasia and Turkey, has been described from Armenia as Phytoecia astarte var. Lederi by Maurice Pic in 1899 [✳]. In Nemrut (SE Turkey) P. astarte lederi is regularly collected on a sg. Cynarae (Asteraceae) plant which most probably serves as its host [❖].
Body length: 9 - 20 mm Life cycle: 1 year Adults in: May - June Host plant: thistles (sg. Cynarae) Distribution: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Turkey
The depicted beetle was collected in summit plateaus of Nemrut Dagi Mt. (Adiyaman prov., Anatolia, SE Turkey) on June 10, 2011.Collected by Michal Hoskovec
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Ganglbauer L.:
Neue und weniger bekannte Longicornier des paläarktischen Faunengebietes.
Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 35 [1885]: 515-524, 1886. [download]
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Pic M.:
Séance du 13 décembre 1899. Description d'une variété de Phytoecia Astarte Ganglb. [Col.].
Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France, Paris [1899]: 391-392, 1899. [download[❖]
Rejzek M., Sama G., Alziar G.:
Host plants of several herb-feeding Cerambycidae mainly from east Mediterranean region (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Biocosme Mésogéen 17 (4): 263-294, 2001. [downloadÖzdikmen H. and Turgut S.:
A review of the genus Musaria Thomson, 1864 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in Turkey with zoogeographical remarks.
Munis Entomology & Zoology 2 (2): 511-516, 2007. [download
[Photo © Michal Hoskovec]
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Saperdini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Phytoecia Dejean, 1835 |
| Subgenus | Musaria J. Thomson, 1864 |
| Species | Phytoecia (Musaria) astarte Ganglbauer, 1886 |
| Subspecies | Phytoecia (Musaria) astarte lederi Pic, 1899 |