[= Asias galusoi Kostin, 1974; ❖]
Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE / Tribus: TRACHYDERINI
[Photo © Daniel Rydzi]
Anoplistes galusoi, a rare and highly endangered species endemic to Kazakhstan, has been described by Ivan Antonovich Kostin as Asias galusoi in 1974 [✧] according to specimens found by A. Badenko at Mt. Ulkunkalkan (river Ili, Alma-Ata province, SE Kazakhstan) in May and June 1973. Larval development in roots and basal stem parts of living Ephedra strobilacea plants. The irregular larval gallery is widened with the age of larva and although it is initially oriented downwards, it turns back to the top. Its length usually does not exceed 20 cm. Most of the emergence holes of the adults are located at the base of the root neck, approx. a few centimetres above ground level. The damaged shoots dry up before the autumn, and sometimes this may cause the whole bush to die. Adults, which are poor flyers, can be collected on the host plant during May and June. They copulate on host plants shortly after they hatch and supplementary feeding does not seem to be important in this species [✮].
Body length: ♂♂ 12 - 15 mm / ♀♀ 13 - 16.5 mm Life cycle: 1 year Adults in: May - June Host plant: Ephedra strobilacea Distribution: an endemic species to Kazakhstan
The depicted beetles were: (FK) – reared from larva found in dying Ephedra strobilacea in Kazakhstan in summer 2024; (KH) - collected in Altyn Emel National Park (Almaty region, Kazakhstan) in June 2016.Colelcted by Filip Klabussay and Karel Hodek
[✧]
Kostin I.A.:
Два новых вида усачей (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) из Казахстана.
[ Two new species of Longicorn Beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) from Kazakshtan. ]
Энтомологическое обозрение / Revue d'Entomologie de l'URSS 53 (3): 1973 (1974). [download]
[✮]
Karpiński L., Szczepański W.T., Plewa R., Walczak M., Hilszczański J., Kruszelnicki L., Łoś K., Jaworski T., Bidas M. & Tarwacki G.:
New data on the distribution, biology and ecology of the longhorn beetles from the area of South and East Kazakhstan (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
ZooKeys 805: 59-126, 2018. [download[❖]
Özdikmen H.:
A nomenclatural act: some nomenclatural changes on palaearctic longhorned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Munis Entomology & Zoology 3 (2): 707-715, 2008. [download
[Photo © Daniel Rydzi]
[Photo © Karel Hodek]
| Subfamilia | Cerambycinae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Trachyderini Dupont, 1836 |
| Genus | Anoplistes Audinet-Serville, 1833 |
| Species | Anoplistes galusoi (Kostin, 1974) |