Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: AGAPANTHIINI
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Agapanthia grosseri, an endemic Anatolian Smaragdula-species, has been described from Erzurum province (Turkey) by Karel Hodek in 2021 [❖]. A. grosseri is a species relatively variable in colour, but basic colour is metallic blue-green (sometimes blue or green). Anterior half of body mostly considerably darker, sometimes even black and without distinct lustre. Host plant is unknown.
Body length: ♂♂ 8.1 - 12.2 mm / ♀♀ 9.2 - 12.9 mm Life cycle: 1 year Adults in: May - June Host plant: unknown Distribution: an endemic species to North-East Turkey
The depicted beetles (paratypes) were collected in Laleli village environs (N40.41103° E40.6104°; 1420 m a.s.l., Pazaryolu district, Erzurum province, Northeast Anatolia, Turkey) on June 17, 2014.Collected by our friend Walter Grosser
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Hodek K.:
Review of the subgenus Smaragdula Pesarini & Sabbadini, 2004, and two new species from Turkey (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Laminae, Agapanthiini)
Natura Somogyiensis 36: 81-110, 2021. [download]
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Agapanthiini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Agapanthia Audinet-Serville, 1835 |
| Subgenus | Smaragdula Pesarini et Sabbadini, 2004 |
| Species | Agapanthia (Smaragdula) grosseri Hodek, 2021 |