Rare Maghrebian taxon Chlorophorus pelleteri has been described from Oran environs (Algeria) as Clytus pelleteri by French entomolgists Francis Louis Laporte de Castelnau and Hippolyte Louis Gory in 1841 [❖].

Body length:	7 - 11 mm
Life cycle:	2 years
Adults in:	May - July
Host plant:	probably oaks (Quercus ilex and Quercus coccifera) [✧]
Distribution:	Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria

The depicted beetle was collected 10 km E of Aoulouz (أولوز, Taroudant province, Souss-Massa region, Morocco).

Collected by L. Černý

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[❖]
Laporte de Castelnau F.L. and Gory H.L.:
Monographie du genre Clytus.
Histoire naturelle et iconographie des insectes coleopteres, Paris, 3 [1836], 124pp, 1841. [download ]

[✧]
Trócoli S.:
Actualización del catálogo de Longicornios de Marruecos Actualisation du catalogue des Longicornes du Maroc (Parte III / Partie III : Cerambycidae, Cerambycinae).
Revue de l'Association Roussillonnaise d'Entomologie (R.A.R.E.) 8 (3): 143-185, 2019 [download ]