Calchaenesthes pistacivora, an endemic Iranian species developing in twigs of Pistacia, was described by Carolus Holzschuh from Sirjan, SE Iran in 2003 [❖].
The species had been reported as a pest in Pistacia orchards in Iran [✧][▽]. Detail information about biology of this interesting beetle (...with many pictures) were published in
paper by Cornelis van Achterberg and Mohammad Reza Mehrnejad published in 2011 [★].
| Body length: | 8 - 12 mm |
| Life cycle: | 2 - 3 years |
| Adults in: | April - May |
| Host plant: | Pistacia vera, Pistacia mutica |
| Distribution: | a species endemic to Iran |
The depicted male beetle was collected on the host plant (Pistacia sp.) in Zīādābād (زياداباد) village environs (N29°10′41″ E53°22′41″; 1700 m a.s.l.,
Jangal Rural District, Central district of Fasā county, Fars province, Iran) on May 14, 2019.
Collected by M. Walczak
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Holzschuh C.
Beschreibung von 72 neuen Bockkäfern aus Asien, vorwiegend aus China, Indien, Laos und Thailand (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Entomologica Basiliensa 25: 147-241, 2003.
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Rad H.H.:
Study on the biology and distribution of long-horned beetles Calchaenesthes pistacivora n. sp. (Col.: Cerambycidae): A new pistachio and wild pistachio pest in Kerman province.
Acta Horticulturae 726: 425-430, 2006.
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Özdikmen H. & Tüzün C.N.:
Distribution of Calchaenesthes species (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae) in the South-Western Asia.
Munis Entomology & Zoology 13 (1): 157-163, 2018.
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van Achterberg C. & Mehrnejad2 M.R.:
A new species of Megalommum Szépligeti (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Braconinae); a parasitoid of the pistachio longhorn beetle (Calchaenesthes pistacivora Holzschuh; Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) in Iran.
ZooKeys 112: 21–38, 2011.
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