Iberodorcadion abulense, an endemic species to Central Spain, has been described from Ávila province as Dorcadion abulense by Jorge Lauffer in 1902 [❖].
Its subspecies I. abulense granulipenne, occuring from provinces Ávila and Salamanca, has been originally described as Dorcadion granulipenne by Manuel Martínez de la Escalera in 1908 [✧].
| Body length: | 12 - 14 ,mm |
| Life cycle: | 1 - 2 years |
| Adults in: | March - May |
| Host plant: | roots and basal stem parts of Poaceae |
| Distribution: | an endemic species to Central Spain (Castile and León: Ávila province) |
Depicted mounted female beetle was collected in Puerto de Villatoro environs (1500 m a.s.l., El Barco de Ávila-Piedrahíta comarca, Ávila province, Castile and León, Spain) on April 18, 1993.
Collected by J.A. Alvaro
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Lauffer J.:
Vorläufige Diagnose eines neuen spanischen Dorcadion.
Societas Entomologica 14: 105, 1902.
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Martínez de la Escalera y Pérez De Rozas M.:
Especies nuevas de «Dorcadion» de España.
Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural 8 (7): 334-337, 1908.
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Breuning S.:
Revision der Dorcadionini (Col. Ceramb.)
Abhandlungen und Berichte aus dem staatlichen Museum für Tierkunde in Dresden 27: 666pp [page 573], 1962.
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del Saz Fucho A., Zapata De La Vega J.L. and Simón Sorli A.:
Datos corológicos de los ejemplares del género Iberodorcadion Breuning, 1943 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) de la colección del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales de Madrid, España.
Revista gaditana de Entomología 4 (1): 21-48, 2013.
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