Subfamilia: LEPTURINAE / Tribus: RHAMNUSIINI
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Akimerus berchmansi, a rare Cerambycid of oak forests occuring in Turkey and Syria, has been described from Hatay province of Turkey by Josef Breit in 1915 [▽]. Biology of the species is not known, but with high probability will be very similar to the sister species Akimerus schaefferi (Laicharting, 1784).
The authors of our portal cannot fully agree with some of the conclusions published in recent works by Janis Vartanis and Hüseyin Özdikmen concerning the taxonomy of the genus Akimerus (at the subgenera, species, and subspecies levels), and therefore we only cite them here [✳][✰][✮].
Body length: 15 - 25 mm Life cycle: 3 years [?] Adults in: June - July Host plant: oaks (Quercus spp.) Distribution: Turkey, Syria
The depicted mounted beetles were collected on oaks (Quercus) in Buğlan Geçidi (Buglan Pass) environs (N38°56.144′ E41°08.542′; 1700 m a.s.l., Şerafettin Dağları, Muş province, East Turkey) on June 25, 2008 and June 22–24, 2002.Collected by Milan Boukal and Milan Rozsíval
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Breit J.:
Beitrag zur Kenntnis der paläarktischen Cerambyciden-Fauna.
Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 34 (8-9): 353-356, 1915. [download]
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Vartanis J.:
Revision of the genus Akimerus in Europe and the palaearctic area (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Munis Entomology & Zoology 18 (supplement): 1854-1860, 2023. [download[✰]
Vartanis J.:
Akimerus schaefferi dentipes (Mulsant, 1842) rest. nom. from France and Etorofus pubescens minetti ssp. nov. from France (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Humanity space - International Almanac 14 (3): 285-291, 2025. [download[✮]
Özdikmen H.:
A new subgenus of the genus Akimerus Audinet-Serville (Cerambycidae: Lepturinae: Rhagiini).
Munis Entomology & Zoology 20 (1): 1993-1995, 2025. [download
| Subfamilia | Lepturinae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Rhamnusiini Sama, 2009 |
| Genus | Akimerus Audinet-Serville, 1836 |
| Species | Akimerus berchmansi Breit, 1915 |