Phytoecia albovittigera, an only European representative of the Paracoptosia subgenus occuring in Eastern Balkan peninsula, has been described from European part of Turkey by Lucas Friedrich Heyden in 1863 [❖].

Mikhail Danilevsky included this species in the newly established subgenus Paracoptosia in 2017 [✩].

Body length:	8 - 12 mm
Life cycle:	1 year
Adults in:	May - June
Host plant:	Alkannia graeca (Boraginaceae)
Distribution:	Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Turkey

The depicted living beetle was photographed by our friend Daniel Rydzi between Anoixi (Άνοιξη) and Karpero (Καρπερό) villages (600 m a.s.l; Grevena prefecture, West Macedonia, Greece) on May 26, 2022.

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[❖]
Heyden L.F.:
Zwei neue Coleopteren-Gattungen aus dem Mittelmeergebiet.
Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7 (1-2): 126-130, 1863. [download ]

[✩]
Danilevsky M.L.:
A New Subgenus of the Longicorn Genus Phytoecia Dejean, 1835 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) from the Palaearctic Region.
Entomological Review 97 (8): 1137-1139, 2017. [download ]