Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: APOMECYNINI
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Ogmodera sulcata, an East African species occuring also in Arabian Peninsula [✮], has been described from Kilimanjaro Mt. environs (Tanzania) by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1908 [❖].
Body length: 7 - 10 mm Life cycle: [?] Adults in: depends on locality (from March to November) Host plant: [?] Distribution: Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Africa (Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania)
Depicted mounted beetles were collected in Thuraybān (ثُريْبَان) environs (Mecca province, Saudi Arabia) on October 25, 2025.Collected by Petr Papoušek
[❖]
Aurivillius P.O.Ch.:
7. Coleoptera. 11. Cerambycidæ.
In: Sjöstedt Yngve, Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Zoologischen Expedition nach dem Kilimandjaro, dem Meru und den umgebenden Massaisteppen Deutsch-Ostafrikas 1905-1906, Stockholm, 1 (1-7): 1-848 [page 150], 1908. [download]
[✮]
Rapuzzi P. and al Dhafer H.:
The Cerambycidae fauna of Saudi Arabia (Coleoptera).
Revue suisse de Zoologie 131 (1): 177-217, 2024. [download
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Apomecynini J. Thomson, 1860 |
| Genus | Ogmodera Aurivillius, 1908 |
| Species | Ogmodera sulcata Aurivillius, 1908 |