Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: PARMENINI
[Photo © Michal Hoskovec]
Parmena mutilloides, a rare and unusually colored species of Parmena endemic to Turkey, was described from Beyşehir environs (Konya province) by Andrea Sabbadini and Carlo Pesarini in 1992 [✧]. Species was included into a newly estabilihed subgenus Pilosoparmena by Maxim A. Lazarev in 2024 [✮].
Body length: 6 - 8.5 mm Life cycle: unknown, but probably 1 - 2 years Adults in: adults hatch in June and as in other Parmena live for many months Host plant: probably polyphagous species (reported fromEuphorbia spp. and Ficus carica) Distribution: a species endemic Turkey (collected in Antalya, İzmir and Konya provinces)
The beetle in these pictures was reared from a larva found in dead roots of a Euphorbia sp. in Akseki environs (Akseki district, Antalya province, Turkey) in June 2005.Collected by our friend Petr Kabátek
[✧]
Sabbadini A. and Pesarini C.:
Due nuove specie dei generi Parmena Latr. e Dorcadion Dalm. appartenenti alla fauna Turca (Coleoptera Cerambycidae).
Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 124 (1): 27-32, 1992. [download]
[✮]
Lazarev M.:
Taxonomic notes on longhorned beetles with the descriptions of several new taxa (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). Part II.
Humanity space International almanac 13 (8): 712-718, 2024. [download
[Photo © Michal Hoskovec]
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Parmenini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Parmena Dejean, 1821 |
| Subgenus | Pilosoparmena Lazarev, 2024 |
| Species | Parmena (Pilosoparmena) mutilloides Sabbadini & Pesarini, 1992 |