Plagionotus arcuatus multiinterruptus, a subspecies occuring in Transcaucasia, has been described as Plagionotus arcuatus var. multiinterruptus by Maurice Pic in 1933 [▽].

Body length:	♂ 11.5-18.5 mm / ♀ 12.2-16.6 mm
Life cycle:	1 - 2 years
Adults in:	May - July
Host plant:	prefers Quercus spp.
Distribution:	Nakhichevan region of Azerbaijan, Armenia, NE Turkey (?) [❖]

The depicted living beetles were collected mating on trunk of falled dead Caucasian oak (Quercus macranthera) found in the edge of sparse mountain oak forest 3 km West of Lichk (Լիճք,; 2300 m, Syunik Province, South Armenia) on June 7th, 2012. The mounted specimen was captured on hawthorn (Crataegus) in the same locality (in elevation 1772 m a.s.l.) on June 1, 2013.

Collected by Michal Hoskovec and David Navrátil

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Pic M.:
Notes diverses, nouveautés (Suite.).
L'Échange, Revue Linnéenne 49 (452): 5-6, 1933.

[❖]
Lazarev M.A.:
New subspecies of Plagionotus arcuatus (Linnaeus, 1758) from Transcaucasia and Kyrgyzstan (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Studies and Reports, Taxonomical Series 6 (1-2): 149-164, 2010. [download ]