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| Body length: | 9 - 14 mm |
| Life cycle: | 2 years |
| Adults in: | May - June |
| Host plant: | oak (Quercus) |
| Distribution: | Turkey, Syria |
Ropalopus ledereri is a beautiful and very rare species of the southeastern Mediterranean region.
It is a typical inhabitant of quickly receding Quercus calliprinos forest-steppe formations. Adult
beetles can be found sitting on leaves of the hosts or occasionally they gather on juice-oozing oak trees.
They never visit flowers.
The living beetle was reared from a larva collected in a dying oak twig
near Erdemli (SW Turkey). The mounted beetle was beaten from a living oak (Quercus) in Karadut
(Nemrut Dagi National Park, Adiyaman prov., Anatolia, SE Turkey) by M.Hoskovec.
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