Pilemia halperini, a very rare species occuring in Israel and Jordan only, has been described from Qusbiye environs (Israel) as Phytoecia halperini by Carolus Holzschuh in 1999 [❖]. P. halperini differs even at first glance (among other things...) from the sister species P. griseomaculata Pic, 1891 by the abundance of irregularly placed isolated white elytral spots on the elytra.

Body length:	10 - 11 mm
Life cycle:	1 year
Adults in:	May - June
Host plant:	unknown
Distribution:	Israel, Jordan [▽]

Depicted beetle was collected in Ajlūn (عجلون) environs (Ajlūn governorate, Jordan) on April 15, 2022.

Collected by our friend Lukáš Skořepa

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Holzschuh C.:
Beschreibung von 71 neuen Bockkäfern aus Asien, vorwiegend aus China, Laos, Thailand und Indien (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Schriftenreihe der Forstlichen Bundesversuchanstalt (FBVA-Berichte) 110: 1-64, 1999. [download ]

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Kasatkin 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 ]