Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: PARMENINI
[Photo © David Navrátil & 8K postprocessing Michal Hoskovec]
Parmena unifasciata, a Mediterranean species extending northward into Central Europe, has been described as Lamia unifasciata from Italy by Pietro Rossi in 1790 [▽]. P. unifasciata is polyphagous in deciduous trees and various herbs, larvae feed in tree twigs and stalks of herbaceous plants (e.g.Euphorbia). Adults, which emerge from spring to autumn, are crepuscular/nocturnal and can be found on the host plants.
Body length: 5 - 10 mm Life cycle: 1 - 2 years Adults in: March - September Host plant: polyphagous in deciduous trees and various herbs Distribution: Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Hungary, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia, Switzerland
Depicted mounted beetles were reared from larvae collected in: ♂ Terme environs (Vallio Terme, Brescia province, Lombardy, Italy) on May 5, 2011; ♀ Pizzo environs (Vibo Valentia province, Calabria, Italy) on May 29, 2011. The living secimen was photographed in Durmitor Mts. (Montenegro) in June 2014.Collected by Milan Šárovec
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Rossi P.:
Fauna Etrusca, sistens Insecta, quae in provinciis Florentina et Pisana praesertim collegit.
Thomae Masi, Liburni 1: 272pp, 1790. [download]
[Photo © Tamás Németh]
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Parmenini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Parmena Dejean, 1821 |
| Subgenus | Parmena Dejean, 1821 |
| Species | Parmena (Parmena) unifasciata (Rossi, 1790) |