[= Paratitoceres arabicus Breuning, 1962]
Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: CEROPLESINI
[Photo © David Navrátil, click on the picture for 4K resolution]
Titoceres arabicus, a striking species of Arabian peninsula known from Oman, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, has been described from Sana environs (Yemen) as Paratitoceres arabicus by Stephan von Breuning in 1962 [✱]. Development in damaged, dying, freshly dead or charred trunks and branches of Vachellia trees. Adults, active from March to November, are nocturnal and can be attracted by light [✳][✮].
Body length: 17 - 30 mm Life cycle: 1 -2 years Adults in: March – November Host plant: Vachellia (= Acacia) spp. Distribution: Oman, Saudi Arabia, Yemen
Depicted mounted beetles were found: (DN) – pupae and adults in the wood of dead and charred trunks of young Vachellia trees in wadi Darbat (N17°3′6″ E54°25′29″; 10 m a.s.l., Taqah/طاقة environs, Dhofar governorate, Oman) on September 25–26, 2025; (PK) – attracted to light in Al Mughsail (المغسيل) environs (N16°51′46″ E53°43′18″; 100 m a.s.l, Jabal al Qamar, Dhofar governorate, Oman) on April 10, 2013.Collected by David Navrátil and Pavel Kučera
[✱]
Breuning S.:
Nouveaux Lamiaires du British Museum (Natural History) (Col. Cerambycidae).
Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 13 5 (52): 233-241, 1962.[✳]
Holzschuh C. and Teocchi P.:
Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of Saudi Arabia: Part I, Lamiinae.
Fauna of Saudi Arabia 12 [1991]: 295-311, 1992. [download]
[✮]
Rapuzzi P. and al Dhafer H.:
The Cerambycidae fauna of Saudi Arabia (Coleoptera).
Revue suisse de Zoologie 131 (1): 177-217, 2024. [download
[Photo © Pavel Kučera]
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Ceroplesini J. Thomson, 1860 |
| Genus | Titoceres J. Thomson, 1868 |
| Species | Titoceres arabicus (Breuning, 1962) |