Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: SAPERDINI
[Photo © David Navrátil & 8K postprocessing M.Hoskovec]
Phytoecia (Phytoecia) kabateki has been discovered in Syria by Petr Kabátek and subsequently described by Gianfranco Sama [❖]. This Phytoecia species develops in Ferula hermonis Boiss. (Apiaceae) [✧].
Body length: 8 - 13 mm Life cycle: 1 year Adults in: April - June Host plant: Ferula hermonis Distribution: an endemic species to Syria
The depicted beetle was collected in Bloudan (بلودان) environs (Antilebanon Mts., Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria). on May 17-23, 1995.Collected by P.Kabátek
[❖]
Sama G.:
Nouveaux longicornes de Grèce et du Proche Orient (Coleoptera - Cerambycidae), avec la description de trois espèces nouvelles.
Biocosme Mésogéen, Nice 13 (4): 97-105, [1996] 1997. [download]
[✧]
Rejzek M., Sama G., Alziar G.:
Host plants of several herb-feeding Cerambycidae mainly from east Mediterranean region (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Biocosme Mésogéen 17 (4): 263-294, 2001. [download
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Saperdini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Phytoecia Pic, 1892 |
| Subgenus | Phytoecia Pic, 1892 |
| Species | Phytoecia (Phytoecia) kabateki Sama, 1996 |