Phytoecia (Parobereina) vittipennis Reiche, 1877
ssp. vittipennis Reiche, 1877
[= Phytoecia (Blepisanis) vittipennis Reiche, 1877]

Subfamilia: LAMIINAE  /  Tribus: SAPERDINI
Phytoecia vittipennis
[Photo © David Navrátil & 8K postprocessing M.Hoskovec]

Species was moved into a newly estabilished subgenus Parobereina by Mikhail Danilevsky in 2018 [✩]. Phytoecia (Parobereina) vittipennis is associated with Achillea arabica (Asteraceae) [❖].

Body length:7 - 10 mm
Life cycle:1 year
Adults in:May - June
Host plant:Achillea arabica
Distribution:Armenia, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, Lebanon, Israel, Syria, Turkey


The depicted beetle was collected in Eibenthal (Tisové Údolí) village environs (Mehedinți county, SW Romania) on May 28, 2009.

Collected by J. Král


[❖]
Rejzek M., Sama G., Alziar G., Sádlo J.:
Host Plants of Longhorn Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from the Balkan Peninsula, Asia Minor and Iran.
Biocosme Mésogéen 19 (3): 161-189, [2002] 2003. [download pdf icon]


[✩]
Danilevsky M.L.:
A new Palaearctic subgenus of genus Phytoecia Dejean, 1835 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Zootaxa 4521 (1): 129-132, 2018. [download pdf icon]

Danilevsky M.L.:
A new species of Phytoecia (Neomusaria) Plavilstshikov, 1928 from Armenia and a new species of Phytoecia (Parobereina) Danilevsky, 2018 from Iran (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Zootaxa 4747 (1): 196-200, 2020. [download pdf icon]



 
SubfamiliaLamiinae Latreille, 1825
TribusSaperdini Mulsant, 1839
GenusPhytoecia Dejean, 1835
GenusParobereina Danilevsky, 2017
SpeciesPhytoecia (Parobereina) vittipennis Reiche, 1877
SubspeciesPhytoecia (Parobereina) vittipennis vittipennis Reiche, 1877