Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: CEROPLESINI
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Ceroplesis elegans, a beautiful species occuring in Arabian peninsula, has been described from Yemen by Raffaello Gestro in 1889 [✱]. Larvae develop in dying/dead wood of desert trees and shrubs (reported from Vachellia and Pisctacia). Adults, active from April to November, are nocturnal and can be attracted by light.
Body length: 20 - 30 mm Life cycle: 1 - 2 years Adults in: April - November Host plant: Vachellia spp., Pisctacia sp. Distribution: Saudi Arabia, Yemen
The mounted beetles were reared from larvae found in Pistacia sp. branch in Al Mindak/Al Mandaq (المندق,) environs (Al-Baha province, Saudi Arabia) in October 2025. Depicted living beetle was reared from larva found in Vachellia sp. branch in Wadi Murharash (1884 m a.s.l., 15 km NW of Sabt Al Alaya, ‘Asīr province, Saudi Arabia).Collected by our friends Petr Papoušek and František Kovařík
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Gestro R.:
Viaggio ad Assab nel Mar Rosso dei signori G. Doria ed Ó. Beccari con il r. avviso "esploratore" dal 16 novembre 1876 al 26 febbraio 1880.
Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova (Série 2) 7 (27): 5-72, 1889. [download]
Rapuzzi P. and al Dhafer H.:
The Cerambycidae fauna of Saudi Arabia (Coleoptera).
Revue suisse de Zoologie 131 (1): 177-217, 2024. [download
[Photo © Daniel Rydzi]
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Ceroplesini J. Thomson, 1860 |
| Genus | Ceroplesis Audinet-Serville, 1835 |
| Species | Ceroplesis elegans Gestro, 1889 |