Grammoptera auricollis bipustulata, an endemic subpecies to Peloponnese (South Greece), has been described as Grammoptera bipustulata by Siegfried Steiner in 1975 [✳].
According to Gianfranco Sama, G. bipustulata is merely a subspecies of G. auricollis Mulsant & Rey, 1863 [❖], a view with which Milan Sláma strongly disagrees [✮].
Adult beetles have been collected on flowering bushes of Quercus coccifera and Crataegus. Females of this species were observed ovipositing in a dead branch of a
living Quercus coccifera. This branch showed a typical pattern of a fungal attack similar to fungi other Grammoptera species (G. abdominalis,
G. ustulata) are associated with.
| Body length: | 5 - 9 mm |
| Life cycle: | 2 years [?] |
| Adults in: | May - June |
| Host plant: | oaks (Quercus spp.) |
| Distribution: | a species endemic to South Greece (Peloponnese) |
The depicted beetles were beaten from a blossoming hawthorn (Crataegus) in locality situated along the main road from Sparta to Tripoli on
a mountain plateau (20 km S Tripoli, 900 m, Peloponnese peninsula, South Greece).
Collected by Michal Hoskovec
[✳]
Steiner S.:
Eine neue Grammoptera-Art aus Griechenland (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Zeitschrift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft österreichischer Entomologen 26: 22-23, [1974] 1975.
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[✮]
Sláma M.E.F.:
On the taxonomy of taxa related to Grammoptera auricollis Mulsant & Rey (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Lambillionea 97 (4): 512-514, 1997.
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[❖]
Mulsant É. and Rey C.:
Longicornes nouveaux ou peu connus.
Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon (Nouvelle série) 10 (2): 144-184, 1863.
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