[= Phytoecia (Opsilia) uncinata (Redtenbacher, 1842)]
[= Opsilia uncinata (Redtenbacher, 1842)]
Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: SAPERDINI
[Photo © David Navrátil & 8K postprocessing Michal Hoskovec]
Phytoecia uncinata, a species occuring in the Central and South-East Europe, has been described as Saperda uncinata from Vienna by Joseph Redtenbacher in 1849 [▽]. P. uncinata is a relatively rare species associated with warm steppe habitats with honeywoths (Cerinthe spp.), which are its host plants. Species was included into a newly estabilihed subgenus Danilevskia by Maxim A. Lazarev in 2024 [✳].
Body length: 5 - 9 mm Life cycle: 1 year Adults in: April - June Host plant: Boraginaceae (honeyworts - Cerinthe minor, Cerinthe glabra) Distribution: Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Germany, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
The depicted mounted beetles were collected on the host plant (Cerinthe minor) in Uherský Brod environs (250 m a.s.l., South Moravia, Czechia) on May 27, 2018. The living specimen was photographed on the host plant (Cerinthe minor) in Kozly village environs (Louny district, Ústí nad labem region, North-West Bohemia, Czechia) on June 6, 2021.Collected by David Navrátil and Daniel Rydzi
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Redtenbacher J.:
Quaedam Genera et Species Coleopterorum Archiducatus Austriae nondum descriptorum.
Dissertatio inauguralis botanica de caricibus territorii Vindobonensis, Ueberreute, 31 pp, 1842. [download]
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Lazarev M.:
Taxonomic notes on longhorned beetles with the descriptions of several new taxa (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Humanity space International almanac 13 (1): 21-38, 2024. [downloadSláma M.E.F.:
Tesaříkovití – Cerambycidae České republiky a Slovenské republiky / Cerambycidae of the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic.
Milan Sláma private printing, Krhanice, 383pp [pages 342-344], 1998 [ISBN: 80-238-2627-1]. [download
[Photo © Daniel Rydzi]
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Saperdini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Phytoecia Pic, 1892 |
| Subgenus | Danilevskia Lazarev, 2024 |
| Species | Phytoecia (Opsilia) uncinata (Redtenbacher, 1842) |