[= Crossotus (Crossotides) lateralis Hintz, 1912]
[= Crossotus obliquevittatus Breuning, 1940]
[= Crossotus adenensis Breuning, 1969]
Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: CROSSOTINI
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Crossotus vagepictus, a representative of African entomofauna extending in the north of its distribution range to the Arabian Peninsula [✮], has been described from Somalia as Dichostates vagepictus by Léon Marc Herminie Fairmaire in 1886 [✧].
Body length: 8.5 - 13 mm Life cycle: 2 - 3 years Adults in: almost whole year, depends on region Host plant: Vachellia spp. (= former Acacia) Distribution: Yemen, Africa (Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Niger, Somalia, Sudan)
Depicted beetles collected in Huluul village environs (N09°58′40″ E46°41′40″; 820 m a.s.l., Sanaag region, Somaliland) on October 10, 2021.Collected by Petr Kabátek
[✧]
Fairmaire L.M.H.:
Note sur les Coléoptères recueillis par M. Laligant à Obock.
Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 5 (6): 435-462, 1886. [download]
[✮]
Sudre J., Teocchi P., Sama G. & Rousset F.:
Les genres Crossotus, Biobessoides et Epidichostates (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Crossotini). Notes préliminaires pour une révision du genre Crossotus, avec remarques synonymiques et bionomiques sur les genre Corus, Biobessoides et Epidichostates.
Magellanes: Collection systématique 15: 1-80, 2007. [download
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Crossotini Thomson, 1864 |
| Genus | Crossotus Audinet-Serville, 1835 |
| Species | Crossotus vagepictus (Fairmaire, 1886) |