Herophila fairmairei (Thomson, 1857)
[= Herophila fairmairii (Thomson, 1857)]
[= Dorcatypus fairmairei (Thomson, 1857)]

Subfamilia: LAMIINAE  /  Tribus: LAMIINI

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[Photo © Petr Jelínek & 8K postprocessing Michal Hoskovec, click on the picture for 4K resolution]

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Herophila fairmairei, a rare endemic species to Parnassus mountain range in Greece, has been described from "Grèce" as Dorcadion Fairmairei by James Thomson in 1857 [▽].

Body length:	12 - 25 mm
Life cycle:	2 - 3 years [?]
Adults in:	March - July
Host plant:	oligophagous in roots of shrubs from Fabaceae family (Astragalus spp.)
Distribution:	an endemic species to Parnassus mountain range in Greece

The depicted beetles were collected in Mount Parnassus range (Central Greece region, Greece) on May 23, 2022.

Collected by our friends Karel Hodek David and Daniel Rydzi

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[▽]
Thomson J.:
Description d'une espèce nouvelle de Dorcadion, provenant de la Grèce.
Archives Entomologiques 1: 151-152, 1857. [download ]

Rapuzzi P. and Sama G.:
New taxa and notes on the systematic of palearctic Longhorn-Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Munis Entomology & Zoology 13 (1): 1-39, 2018. [download ]

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[Photo © Daniel Rydzi]

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Subfamilia	Lamiinae Latreille, 1825
Tribus	Lamiini Latreille, 1825
Genus	Herophila Mulsant, 1863
Species	Herophila fairmairei (Thomson, 1857)