Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: PARMENINI
[Photo © David Navrátil]
Parmenopsis caucasica, a Caucasian species occuring in Georgia, Russia and Turkey, has been very briefly described from Surami environs (Georgia) as Parmena balteus var. Caucasica by Hans Leder in 1879 [❖]. The taxon was elevated to species level by Ludwig Ganglbauer in 1884 [✮].
Body length: 3 - 6 mm Life cycle: 1 - 2 years Adults in: May - August Host plant: polyphagous in deciduous trees (Corylus, Rhododendron etc.) Distribution: Georgia, Russia: South European Territory, Turkey
The depicted beetles were collected in Lazarevskoe (Лазаревское) environs (Lazarevsky city sistrict of Sochi, Krasnodar krai, Southern federal district, Russia) on June 12, 2013.Collected by Sergey Dementyev
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Leder H.:
Beitrag zur kaukasischen Käfer-Fauna. Unter Mitwirkung hervorragender Fachgenossen.
Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 29: 451-488, 1879. [download]
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Ganglbauer L.:
Bestimmungs-Tabellen der europäischen Coleopteren. VIII. Cerambycidae. (Schluss.) Mit Berücksichtigung der Formen Algiers und des paläarktischen Asiens, exclusive jener von Japan.
Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 33 (2): 437-586 [page 523], [1883] 1884. [download
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Parmenini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Parmenopsis Ganglbauer, 1881 |
| Species | Parmenopsis caucasica (Leder, 1879) |