Phytoecia farinosa, a known from Iran and Turkmenistan, has been described from Shâhrūd environs (Iran) by Ludwig Ganglbauer in 1886 [❖]. The subgenus Pseudomusaria, into which the species was included, was established by Maurice Pic in 1900 [▽].

Body length:	10 - 16 mm
Life cycle:	1 year
Adults in:	May - June
Host plant:	unknown
Distribution:	Iran, Turkmenistan

The depicted beetle was collected in Chuli (Çüli) valley (20 km SSE of Gögdepe, Kopetdag Mts., Ashgabat province, Turkmenistan) on April 19, 1984.

Collected by V. Safronov

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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 ]

[✳]
Semenov Tian-Shanskij A.P.:
Coleoptera Asiatica Nova.
Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 27 (3-4): 494-507, 1893. [download ]

[▽]
Pic M.:
Contribution a l'étude des Coléoptères d'Europe et des régions voisines. 2° Notes sur les Longicornes du Groupe des Phytæciaires.
Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France, Paris 25: 14-16, 1900. [download ]