Pedostrangalia verticenigra, an uncommon and not very often collected species occuring in Turkey, Georgia and the island of Samos, has been described from Akbez environs
(nowadays in Turkey) as Leptura (Strangalia) verticalis var. vertice-nigra by Maurice Pic in 1892 [✧][❖]. Biology of the species remains unknown, but larval development
probably occurs in decaying wood of deciduous trees. Adults, active from May to July, are diurnal and anthophilous.
| Body length: | ♂♂ 10 - 14.5 mm / ♀♀ 12 - 15 mm |
| Life cycle: | 2 - 3 years [?] |
| Adults in: | May - July |
| Host plant: | unknown |
| Distribution: | Greece (Samos), Georgia, Turkey |
Collected in Parkhali village environs (Yusufeli district, Artvin province, Turkey) on July 8, 1996.
Collected by our friend Milan Šárovec
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Pic M.:
Voyage de M. Charles Delagrange dans la Haute-Syrie. Année 1891 (1) Longicornes.
Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, Paris 61: 413-422, 1892.
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Danilevsky M.L.:
Longicorn beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycoidea) of Russia and adjacent countries. Part 1.
Higher School Consulting, Moscow, 550pp [page 300], 2014.
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Özdikmen H.:
Turkish red list categories of longicorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) Part III - Subfamily Lepturinae: Lepturini.
Munis Entomology & Zoology 9 (1): 384-417, 2014.
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