Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE / Tribus: HESPEROPHANINI
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Trichoferus georgioui, an interesting endemic species to Cyprus, has been described from Paphos environs (Cyprus) Gianfranco Sama and Christodoulos Makris in 2001 [❖]. Like related species of the genus, T. georgioui is a nocturnal beetle, which can be attracted to light or can also be caught using vine traps. It is probably a polyphagous species with development in dying/dead wood of deciduous trees (development in Ceratonia siliqua is proven [✧]), relatively widely distributed at lower and medium altitudes in the southern and southwestern foothills of the Troodos Mountains.
Body length: 12 - 16 mm Life cycle: 2 years Adults in: June - August Host plant: probably polyphagous in deciduous trees (e.g. Ceratonia siliqua ) Distribution: an endemic species to Cyprus
The depicted mounted males were collected in: ♂P (paratype) - wine trap on Crataegus in Monagri (Μονάγρι) village (450 m a.s.l., Limassol district, Cyprus) on July 7, 2000; ♂ - wine trap in Agios Silas (Άγιος Συλάς) environs (200 m a.s.l., Ypsonas, Limassol district, Cyprus) on July 4, 2001.Collected by Gabriel Georgiou
[❖]
Sama G. and Makris Ch.:
Description of Trichoferus georgioui sp. nov. from Cyprus (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Entomologische Zeitschrift 111 (6): 166-167, 2001. [download]
[✧]
Ambrus R., Grosser W. and Hrbek J.:
Contribution to the knowledge of longhorn beetles from Cyprus (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Humanity space International Almanac 3 (2): 173-190, 2014. [download
| Subfamilia | Cerambycinae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Hesperophanini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Trichoferus Wollaston, 1854 |
| Species | Trichoferus georgioui Sama et Makris, 2001 |