Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: DESMIPHORINI
[Photo © Sergei O. Kakunin]
Mesosa obscuricornis, a rare forest species occuring in Azerbaidjan, North Iran and Turkey, has been described from Lenkoran environs (Azerbaidjan) as Mesosa nebulosa var. obscuricornis by Maurice Pic in 1894 [✧].
Body length: 9 - 15 mm Life cycle: 2 - 3 years Adults in: May - July Host plant: polyphagous in deciduous trees Distribution: Azerbaidjan, North Iran, Turkey [❖]
The depicted beetles were collected in vicinity of road from Tegran to Chalus (20 km to Chalus, 314 m a.s.l., Māzandarān province, Iran) on May 26, 2015.Collected by Sergei O. Kakunin
[✧]
Pic M.:
Descriptions de coléoptères de la faune circa-européenne.
La Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes 24: 44, 1894. [download]
[❖]
Özdikmen H. and Turgut S.:
The genus Mesosa Latreille, 1829 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) in Turkey with a new record, Mesosa obscuricornis Pic, 1894.
Entomological News 117 (3): 309-311, 2006.
[Photo © Sergei O. Kakunin]
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Mesosini Thomson, 1860 |
| Genus | Mesosa Latreille, 1829 |
| Subgenus | Aplocnemia Stephens, 1831 |
| Species | Mesosa (Aplocnemia) obscuricornis Pic, 1894 |