Oxylia argentata, a nominative Anatolo-Caucasian subspecies distributed in Crimea, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Iran and Turkey,
has been described from Azerbaijan as Saperda argentata by Edouard Ménétriés in 1832 [✧]. According to Martin Rejzek et al. in Syria Oxylia argentata develops in
Anchusa italica (Boraginaceae) [❖].
| Body length: | 12 - 18 mm |
| Life cycle: | 1 year |
| Adults in: | May - June |
| Host plant: | Anchusa, Echium |
| Distribution: | Crimea, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Turkey |
The depicted mounted beetle was collected on the host plant Anchusa italica in Gescher environs (2300-2450 m a.s.l,
Māzandarān province, Iran) on June 2, 2014.
Collected by Sergei O. Kakunin
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Ménétriés E.:
Catalogue raisonné des objets de Zoologie recueillis dans un voyage au Caucase et jusqu'aux frontières actuelles de la Perse entrepris
par ordre de S. M. L' Empereur.
Saint-Pétersbourg 4: 271pp, 1832.
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[❖]
Rejzek M., Sama G., Alziar G.:
Host plants of several herb-feeding Cerambycidae mainly from east Mediterranean region (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Biocosme Mésogéen 17 (4): 263-294, 2001.
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