Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE / Tribus: HESPEROPHANINI
[Photo © David Navrátil, click on the picture for 4K resolution]
Trichoferus kotschyi, a species occuring in South-East Mediterranean region (Samos Island, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey), has been described from Taurus Mts. (South Turkey) as Hesperophanes Kotschyi by Ludwig Ganglbauer in 1883 [❖].
Body length: 12 - 22 mm Life cycle: 2 - 3 years Adults in: June - August Host plant: polyphagous in deciduous trees and plants Distribution: Greece [✧], Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
The depicted mounted adults of this very nice Trichoferus species were collected in Erdemli environs (Mersin province, South-West Turkey) in June 1998. Here, it seems to be broadly polyphagous on deciduous trees. Larvae, pupae, and adults of Trichoferus kotschyi were collected in oaks (Quercus spp.}, carob (Ceratonia siliqua), but also in dead herbaceous plants. The living beetle was collected in Lebanon in 2016.Collected by Martin Johanides and Tamás Németh
[❖]
Ganglbauer L.
Ueber einige Bockkäfer.
Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 2: 298–300, 1883. [download]
[✧]
Dauber D.:
Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Cerambycidenfauna von Samos (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Linzer biologische Beiträge 36 (1): 81-88, 2004. [download
[Photo © Tamás Németh]
| Subfamilia | Cerambycinae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Hesperophanini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Trichoferus Wollaston, 1854 |
| Species | Trichoferus kotschyi (Ganglbauer, 1883) |