Acanthocinus hispanicus, an endemic Spanish species described by Gianfanco Sama and Peter Schurmann in 1979 [❖], is very close to Acanthocinus henschi, but different from it in several characters: a long rib missing on the base of the elytrae, denser and lighter pubescence of the whole body or more pronounced protuberances on the disc of the pronotus.

Body length:	10 - 15 mm
Life cycle:	1 - 2 years
Adults in:	June - September
Host plant:	pines (Pinus pinea, Pinus silvestris, Pinus halepensis)
Distribution:	an endemic species to Spain [✧]

The depicted beetle was reared from larva found in dead pine in Barracas (NE Spain).

Collected by our friend Ladislav Karaus

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[❖]
Sama G. and Schurmann P.:
Descrizione di Acanthocinus hispanicus n. sp. (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Miscel·lània Zoològica, Barcelona 5: 43-45, 1979. [download ]

[✧]
González Peña C.F., Vives E., de Sousa Zuzarte A.J.:
Nuevo catálogo de los Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) de la Península Ibérica, islas Baleares e islas atlánticas: Canarias, Açores y Madeira.
Monografias Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 12: 211 pp., 2007. [download ]