This endemic species of Turkey develops in a still undetermined plant from Boraginaceae family [❖].

Body length:	8 - 13 mm
Life cycle:	1 year
Adults in:	May - June
Host plant:	Boraginaceae
Distribution:	an endemic species of Turkey

The depicted beetle was collected in Arslanköy (South Turkey).

Collected by M.Rejzek

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Rejzek M., Sama G., Alziar G.:
Host plants of several herb-feeding Cerambycidae mainly from east Mediterranean region (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Biocosme Mésogéen 17 (4): 263-294, 2001. [download ]

Özdikmen H. and Turgut S.:
An overview on the palaearctic subgenus Phytoecia (Pilemia) Fairmaire, 1864, with a new species Phytoecia (Pilemia) samii sp. n. from Turkey (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae).
Munis Entomology & Zoology 5 (1): 90-108, 2010. [download ]