[= Melasmetus femoralis (Ménétries, 1832)]
Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE / Tribus: CALLIDIINI
[Photo © Petr Jelínek]
Phymatodes femoralis, a rare Caucasian species occuring in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran and Russia, has been described from Talysh Mts. (Azerbaidjan) as Callidium femorale by Edouard Ménétriés in 1832 [✮].
Body length: 7 - 14 mm Life cycle: 1 - 2 years Adults in: April - August Host plant: polyphagous in deciduous trees Distribution: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Russia
The depicted beetles were collected by Petr Jelínek in NW Iran (Khorásán province).
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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 [page 228], 1832. [download]
Ambrus R. and Grosser W.:
Results of the Czech entomological expedition to Iran (2009 - 2010) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Humanity space - International Almanac 2 (3): 461-482, 2013. [download
[Photo © Petr Jelínek]
| Subfamilia | Cerambycinae Latreille, 1802 |
| Tribus | Callidiini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Phymatodes Mulsant, 1839 |
| Subgenus | Melasmetus Reitter, 1912 |
| Species | Phymatodes (Melasmetus) femoralis Ménétriés, 1832 |