[= Phytoecia (Opsilia) molybdaena (Dalman, 1817)]
[= Opsilia molybdaena (Dalman, 1817)]
Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: SAPERDINI
[Photo © David Navrátil, click on the picture for 4K resolution]
Phytoecia molybdaena, a rare but widely distributed taxon (Central and South Europe, Turkey, North Africa), has been described from "Halæ Saxonum" (Halle an der Saale, Germany) as Saperda molybdaena by Swedish entomologist Johan Wilhelm Dalman in 1817 [▽]. The host plant of this species in Central Europe, Lithospermum purpureo-coeruleum, was firstly mentioned in work of Tibor Kovács in 1997 [✩]. Species was included into a newly estabilihed subgenus Danilevskia by Maxim A. Lazarev in 2024 [✳].
Body length: 5 – 9 mm Life cycle: 1 year Adults in: May – June Host plant: Boraginaceae (Echium grandiflorum, Cynoglossum spp., Lithospermum purpureo-coeruleum) Distribution: Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, Morocco, Turkey [✧]
The mounted specimens were collected in: ♂ – Feketeerdó environs (on L. purpureo-coeruleum, 125 m a.s.l. Molsonmagyaróvár, Hungary) on May 18, 2018; ♀ – Martil (مرتيل) environs (M'diq-Fnideq prefecture, Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region, Morocco) on April 15–26, 1992. The depicted living beetles were photographed on L. purpureo-coeruleum in Győr-Moson-Sopron county (Hungary).Collected by David Navrátil, Martin Wrzecionko and Nikola Rahme
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Johan Wilhelm Dalman in Schönherr C.J.:
Appendix ad C. J. Schönherr Synonymiam Insectorum. Descriptiones Novarum Specierum Insectorum.
Scaris, Lewerentziana 1 (3): 266pp [page 186], 1817. [download]
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Kovács T.:
Food-plants and locality data of Hungarian longhorn beetles 2. (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae). / Magyarorszagi cincerek tapnoveny- es lelohelyadatai 2. (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Folia Historico Naturalia Musei Matraensis 22: 247-255, [1997] 1998. [download[✳]
Lazarev M.:
Taxonomic notes on longhorned beetles with the descriptions of several new taxa (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Humanity space International almanac 13 (1): 21-38, 2024. [download[✧]
Özdikmen H. and Turgut S.:
A review of the genus Opsilia Mulsant, 1862 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae) with a new record to the fauna of Turkey, Opsilia molybdaena (Dalman, 1817).
Munis Entomology & Zoology 3 (1): 191-198, 2008. [download
[Photo © Nikola Rahme]
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Saperdini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Phytoecia Pic, 1892 |
| Subgenus | Danilevskia Lazarev, 2024 |
| Species | Phytoecia (Danilevskia) molybdaena (Dalman, 1817) |