Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: ACANTHOCININI
Acanthocinus elegans ♀ [Photo © P.Jelínek]
Acanthocinus (Acanthocinus) elegans, a rare endemic species occuring in Azerbaijan and NW Iran, has been described from Azerbaijan by Ludwig Ganglbauer in 1884 [▽].
Body length: 7 - 12 mm Life cycle: 1 year Adults in: May - June Host plant: polyphagous on deciduous trees (Quercus, Carpinus) Distribution: Azerbaijan, Iran
The depicted beetles were collected on the dead oak (Quercus sp.) in Gorgan environs (Mazandaran province, Iran).
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Ganglbauer L.:
Bestimmungs-Tabellen der europäischen Coleopteren. VIII. Cerambycidae. (Schluss.) Mit Berücksichtigung der Formen Algiers und des paläarktischen Asiens, exclusive jener von Japan..
Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 33 [1883]: 437-586, 1884. [download]
Wallin H., Kwamme T. and Lin M.:
A review of the genera Leiopus Audinet-Serville, 1835 and Acanthocinus, Dejean, 1821 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Acanthocinini) in Asia, with descriptions of six new species of Leiopus from China.
Zootaxa 3326: 1–36, 2012. [download
Acanthocinus elegans ♂ [Photo © P.Jelínek]
[Photo © K.Hodek]
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Acanthocinini Blanchard, 1845 |
| Genus | Acanthocinus Dejean, 1821 |
| Subgenus | Acanthocinus Dejean, 1821 |
| Species | Acanthocinus (Acanthocinus) elegans Ganglbauer, 1884 |