[= Leptura (Strangalia) syriaca Pic, 1891]
[= Strangalia syriaca Pic, 1891]
Subfamilia: LEPTURINAE / Tribus: LEPTURINI
[Photo © David Navrátil, click on the picture for 4K resolution]
Carlandrea syriaca, described from "Syria" by Maurice Pic as Leptura (Strangalia) syriaca in 1891 [❖][✧], belongs among less known and collected endemic Cerambycids living in South-East Anatolia. The larval development of the species is unknown; the trees and shrubs listed in Hüseyin Özdikmen's recent work [✮] are not confirmed host plants, as adults only visit their flowers. Adults, active from May to July, are diurnal and anthophilous.
Body length: 12 – 18 mm Life cycle: 2 – 3 years [?] Adults in: May – July Host plant: larval development unknown Distribution: an endemic species of SE Turkey
The depicted beetles were beaten from blossoming Christ's thorn (Paliurus spina-christi, Rhamnaceae) in Avgadi environs (800–1100 m a.s.l., 35 km N of Erdemli, Mersin province, South Turkey) on June 16-20, 1996.Collected by Michal Hoskovec
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Pic M.:
Descriptions de Longicornes de Syrie.
L. Jacquet, Lyon, 3pp., 1891.[✧]
Pic M.:
Voyage de M. Charles Delagrange dans la Haute-Syrie. Année 1891 (1) Longicornes.
Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, Paris 61: 413-422, 1892. [download]
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Özdikmen H.:
A turkish endemic species, its feeding preferences knoqn but overlooked: Carlandrea syriaca (Pic, 1891) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lepturinae).
Munis Entomology & Zoology 19 (supplement): 2751-2754, 2024. [download
| Subfamilia | Lepturinae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Lepturini Latreille, 1804 |
| Genus | Carlandrea Sama et Rapuzzi, 1999 |
| Species | Carlandrea syriaca (Pic, 1891) |