Rhagium caucasicum has been described as Rhagium mordax var. caucasicum from Ordubad by Edmund Reitter in 1889 [❖].
| Body length: | 12 - 18 mm |
| Life cycle: | 2 years |
| Adults in: | June - July |
| Host plant: | polyphagous in deciuous trees |
| Distribution: | Georgia, Armenia, Turkey, Azerbaidjan, Iran [✧] |
The depicted living beetle was collected on the 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 a.s.l., Syunik Province, South Armenia) on June 7th, 2012.
The mounted specimen was collected in Tashtun environs (2000 m a.s.l., Zengezur Mts., Syunik Province, South Armenia) on June 16, 2014.
Collected by M.Hoskovec and T.Lengál
[❖]
Reitter E.:
Neue Coleopteren aus Europa, den angrenzenden Ländern und Sibirien, mit Bemerkungen über bekannte Arten. Siebenter Theil..
Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift, Berlin 33 (2): 273-288, 1889.
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Miroshnikov A.I.:
Myths and reality: critical remarks on M.L. Danilevsky’s monograph, “Longicorn beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycoidea) of Russia and adjacent countries. Part 1”
[Мифы и реальность: критические замечания по поводу монографии М.Л. Данилевского «Жуки-усачи (Coleoptera, Cerambycoidea) России и соседних стран. Часть 1».].
Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 12 (1): 181-214, 2016.
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