Stictoleptura (Stictoleptura) tripartita, a rare species occuring in Iran, Iraq, and Turkey, has been described as Leptura tripartita by Lucas Friedrich Heyden in 1889 [✧].

Body length:	13 - 22 mm
Life cycle:	unknown
Adults in:	June - August
Host plant:	unknown
Distribution:	Iran, Iraq, Turkey

The depicted beetle was collected on flowers (Apiaceae) in Laleli village environs (14 km W Pazaryolu, Pazaryolu district, Erzurum province, Anatolia, Turkey) on July 6, 1997.

Collected by our friend Milan Šárovec

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Heyden L.F.:
Descriptiones Coleopterorum novorum Regionis Palaearcticae.
Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift 1889 (1-2): 325-330.
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