Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: SAPERDINI
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Phytoecia merkli, a specied known from Armenia, Syria and Turkey, has been described from Taurus Mts. (Turkey) by Ludwig Ganglbauer in 1884 [✧]. According to Martin Rejzek et al. [❖] the host plants of Phytoecia (Neomusaria) merkli are Salvia sclarea (Lamiaceae), Salvia cf. tomentosa (Lamiaceae), and another still undetermined Lamiaceae plant.
Body length: 7 - 10 mm Life cycle: 1 year Adults in: May - July Host plant: oligophagous on Lamiaceae (e.g. Salvia spp.) Distribution: Armenia, Syria, Turkey
The depicted beetles were collected on Salvia sp. in summit plateaus of Nemrut Dagi Mt. (Adiyaman province, Anatolia, SE Turkey) on June 1-15, 1996 and June 11, 2011, respectively.Collected by Michal Hoskovec
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Ganglbauer L.:
Bestimmungstabellen europäischer Coleopteren: viii. Cerambycidae. Schluss. Mit Berücksichtigung der Formen Algiers und des paläarktischen Asiens, exclusive jener von Japan.
Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 33 [1883]: 437–586, 1884. [download]
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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. [download[ key of Neomusaria subgenus ]
Özdikmen H. & Özdikmen G.:
Updated world species list of the subgenus Phytoecia (Neomusaria) Plavilstshikov, 1928 with two new subspecies from Turkey (Cerambycidae: Lamiinae).
Munis Entomology & Zoology 11 (2): 492-500, 2016. [downloadKasatkin D.G.:
Notes on the fauna and taxonomy of longicorn-beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of Near East and Transacaucasia. I.
Russian Entomological Journal 30 (3): 297-304, 2021. [download
Male genitalia of Phytoecia (Neomusaria) merkli Ganglbauer, 1884 in detail: A. aedeagus, B. lateral lobes, C. subgenital plate.
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Phytoecia (Neomusaria) merkli ♂ [Photo © Michal Hoskovec]
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Saperdini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Phytoecia Dejean, 1835 |
| Genus | Neomusaria Plavilstshikov, 1928 |
| Species | Phytoecia (Neomusaria) merkli Ganglbauer, 1884 |