Turkaromia pruinosa (Reitter, 1903)
[= Aromia pruinosa Reitter, 1903]
[= Tomentaromia pruinosa (Reitter, 1903)]

Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE  /  Tribus: CALLICHROMATINI

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[Photo © David Navrátil]

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Genus Turkaromia, separated from Aromia by Danilevsky in 1993 [★], includes two species - Turkaromia pruinosa described by Edmund Reitter as Aromia pruinosa in 1903 [❖], and T. gromenkoi described by Mikhail Danilevsky in 2000 [✧]. Both taxa are distributed in the Central Asian region and Turkaromia pruinosa also in adjacent Xinjiang province of China.

Body length:	24 - 30 mm
Life cycle:	2 - 3 years
Adults in:	May - June
Host plant:	unknown
Distribution:	China, Kazakhstan

The depicted beetles were collected in Zharkent city environs (550 m a.d.l., Almatinskaya area, Kazakhstan) on June 21-22, 2018.

Collected by S. Dementiev

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[★]
Danilevsky M.L.:
Taxonomic and zoogeographical notes on the family Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of Russia and adjacent regions (for 1992).
Russian Entomological Journal 1 (2): 37–39, 1993. [download ]

[❖]
Reitter E.:
Vier neue Coleopteren der palaearctischen Fauna.
Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 22 (9): 231-233, 1903. [download ]

[✧]
Danilevsky M.L.:
New and little known Cerambycidae from central Asia (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Lambillionea 100 (2): 289-294, 2000. [download ]

Kadyrov A.K., Karpiński L., Szczepański W. T., Taszakowski A. & Walczak M.:
New data on distribution, biology, and ecology of longhorn beetles from the area of west Tajikistan (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
ZooKeys 606: 41-64, 2016. [download ]

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Subfamilia	Cerambycinae Latreille, 1802
Tribus	Callichromatini Blanchard, 1845
Genus	Turkaromia Danilevsky, 1993
Species	Turkaromia pruinosa (Reitter, 1903)