Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: POGONOCHERINI
[Photo © Petr Jelínek]
Pogonocherus inermicollis, a rare species of Caucasian coniferous forests, has been described from Abkhazia by Edmund Reitter in 1894 [❖]. Larvae of P. inermicollis develop in dead branches of Caucasian fir (Abies nordmanniana). Life cycle 2 years. [✮]
Body length: 5 - 7 mm Life cycle: 2 years Adults in: May - September Host plant: monophagous in Caucasian fir (Abies nordmanniana) Distribution: Caucasus (North Turkey, Georgia, South Russia)
The depicted beetles were reared from larvae found in dead Caucasian fir (Abies nordmanniana) branches in Borjomi environs (Samtskhe–Javakheti region, Georgia) in May 2025.Collected by Petr Jelínek
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Reitter E.:
Elfter Beitrag zur Coleopteren-Fauna des russischen Reiches.
Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 13: 238-248, 1894. [download]
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Miroshnikov A.I.:
Contribution to the knowledge of the longicorn beetles of the Caucasus. 5. Genus Pogonocherus Dejean, 1821 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
[К познанию жуков-дровосеков Кавказа. 5. Род Pogonocherus Dejean, 1821 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)]
Caucasian Entomological Bulletin / Кавказский энтомологический бюллетень 4 (3): 323–331, 2008. [download
[Photo © Petr Jelínek]
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Pogonocherini Mulsant, 1839 |
| Genus | Pogonocherus Dejean, 1821 |
| Subgenus | Pityphilus Mulsant, 1862 |
| Species | Pogonocherus (Pityphilus) inermicollis Reitter, 1894 |