ssp. shirvanicum Bogatchev, 1934
Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: DORCADIONINI
[Photo © Petr Jelínek]
Dorcadion shirvanicum was described as Dorcadion mniszechi shirvanica on the base of a glabrous totally black female, appearing similar to D. mniszechi Kraatz, 1873, from Sumgait River valley in Eastern Azerbaijan by Alexei Vladimirovitch Bogatchev in 1934 [✧][▽]. Elevation to the valid separate species was done (in form of a short note) by M.L. Danilevsky and S.I. Khvylia in 1987 [▽]. This beautiful and rare Dorcadion is known from planes of East Azerbaijan. We know only one population near Perekeshkiul in Sumgait River Valley (ca 30 km W of Baku), but according the original description the taxon can be distributed also West of Shemakha [❖].
Body length: ♂ 11 - 17.3 mm / ♀ 14.3 - 18 mm Life cycle: 1 year Adults in: March - May Host plant: larvae feed on roots of various grass species Distribution: endemic to Azerbaijan
The depicted beetles were collected in Perekeshkiul environs (Azerbaijan) on March 30, 2013.
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Bogatchev A.V.:
The materials to study the beetles fauna of Apsheron Peninsula.
Transactions of Azerbajdzhan Department of Transcaucasian Branch of Academia of Sciences of the USSR (zoological section) 7: 14-71, 1934.[✮]
Danilevsky M.L. and Khvylia S.I.:
Entomological Note.
Вестник зоологии / Vestnik Zoologii 6: 82, 1987 [download]
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Danilevsky M.L.:
Cortodera neali sp. n. from Iran and Dorcadion shirvanicum azerbajdzhanicum Plavilstshikov, 1937 stat. N. from Azerbajdzhan (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Les Cahiers Magellanes 32: 1-7, 2004 [download[❖]
Danilevsky M.L. and Murzin S.V.:
A revue of Dorcadion Dalman, 1817 species of "laeve-group" Part I (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae).
Les Cahiers Magellanes 92: 1-20, 2009 [download
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Dorcadionini Swainson, 1840 |
| Genus | Dorcadion Dalman, 1817 |
| Subgenus | Cribridorcadion Pic, 1901 |
| Species | Dorcadion (Cribridorcadion) shirvanicum Bogatchev, 1934 |
| Subspecies | Dorcadion (Cribridorcadion) shirvanicum shirvanicum Bogatchev, 1934 |