Cerambyx (Cerambyx) cerdo acuminatus, a subspecies occuring in Crimea, Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Asia Minor and Near East, has been described from Caucasus as Cerambyx acuminatus by Victor Ivanovitsch Motschulsky in 1853 [✧]. This subspecies has been considered by some experts to be a synonym of C. c. cerdo, but is currently accepted as a valid taxon. C. c. acuminatus is particularly different by its coarser elytral sculpture, stouter body and more conspicuous apical elytral thorns. [❖] The biology is analogous to the nominate subspecies.

Body length:	30 - 55 mm
Life cycle:	2 - 3 years
Adults in:	May - July
Host plant:	predominantly in Quercus spp.
Distribution:	Crimea, South Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey

The depicted male beetle was collected in Lazarevskoye (Ла́заревское) environs (Lazarevsky City district of the city of Sochi, Krasnodar krai, Southern Federal District, Russia).

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[✧]
Motschulsky V.I.:
Nouveautés.
Études Entomologiques 1 [1852]: 77-80, 1853. [download ] 

[❖]
Sláma E.M.:
Cerambyx cerdo iranicus Heyrovský, 1951 and other subspecies of Cerambyx cerdo Linnaeus, 1758 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Humanity space - International Almanac 8 (2): 199-207, 2019. [download ]