Anarchambyx pipposamai, a rare and not well known species endemic to Arabian peninsula [✱], has been described (together with a new genus) from Yemen by Gianfranco Sama in 2007 [▽].
| Body length: | 20 - 30 mm |
| Life cycle: | 2 years [?] |
| Adults in: | June - August [?] |
| Host plant: | Vachellia spp. |
| Distribution: | an endemic species to Arabian peninsula (Saudi Arabia, Yemen) |
The depicted mounted female beetle was reared from larva found in dead Vachellia in Al-Mandaq (المندق) environs (Hejaz region, Al-Baha Province, Saudi Arabia) on May 22. 2024.
Collected by Lukáš Skořepa
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Sama G.:
Description of two new genera and one new species of Cerambycidae from the Arabian Peninsula (Insecta Coleoptera Cerambycidae).
Quaderni di Studi e Notizie di Storia Naturale della Romagna 24: 97-105, 2007.
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Rapuzzi P. and al Dhafer H.:
The Cerambycidae fauna of Saudi Arabia (Coleoptera).
Revue suisse de Zoologie 131 (1): 177-217, 2024.
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