Phytoecia (Helladia) humeralis, a species occuring in South-Eastern Mediterranean region, Near East, Caucasus and Iran, has been described as Saperda humeralis from Turkey by Joseph Waltl in 1828 [✧].

Body length:	5 - 12 mm
Life cycle:	1 year
Adults in:	April - June
Host plant:	Centaurea hyalolepis, Silybum marianum [❖]
Distribution:	Greece (Rhodos), Georgia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Syria, Iran

The mounted female beetle was collected in flight in Ölüdeniz environs (N36°52′ E29°13′; Fethiye district, Muğla Province, Turkey) on May 6, 2017. The living male beetle was collected on the host plant, knapweed Centaurea hyalolepis, in Akrotiri (South Cyprus).

Collected by M.Smirnov and M.Hoskovec

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[✧]
Waltl J.:
Beyträge zur Kenntniss der Coleopteren der Türken.
Isis von Oken, Leipzig 31 (6): 449-472, 1838. [download ]

[❖]
Ambrus R., Grosser W. and Hrbek J.:
Contribution to the knowledge of longhorn beetles from Cyprus (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Humanity space International Almanac 3 (2): 173-190, 2014. [download ]