Phytoecia (Paracoptosia) compacta (Ménétries, 1832)
ssp. compacta (Ménétries, 1832)
[= Phytoecia (Coptosia) compacta compacta (Ménétries, 1832)]

Subfamilia: LAMIINAE  /  Tribus: PHYTOECIINI
Phytoecia compacta compacta
Phytoecia (Paracoptosia) compacta compacta ♂  [Photo © M.Hoskovec]

Species was moved into a newly estabilished subgenus Paracoptosia by Mikhail Danilevsky in 2017 [✩]. According to M. Rejzek et al. [❖] in Turkey Phytoecia (Paracoptosia) compacta compacta develops in Solenanthus stamineus (Boraginaceae).

Body length:10 - 18 mm
Life cycle:1 year
Adults in:May - June
Host plant:Solenanthus stamineus (Boraginaceae)
Distribution:Armenia, Iran, Turkey


The depicted beetles were collected on Solenanthus stamineus in summit plateaus of Nemrut Dagi Mt. (Adiyaman prov., Anatolia, SE Turkey).

Collected by M.Hoskovec


[❖]
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 pdf icon]


Kasatkin D.G.:
A new subgenus of the genus Phytoecia Dejean, 1835 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae).
Russian Entomological Journal 24(2): 127-131, 2015. [download pdf icon]

[✩]
Danilevsky M.L.:
A New Subgenus of the Longicorn Genus Phytoecia Dejean, 1835 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) from the Palaearctic Region.
Entomological Review 97 (8): 1137-1139, 2017. [download pdf icon]


Phytoecia compacta compacta
Phytoecia (Paracoptosia) compacta compacta ♂  [Photo © M.Hoskovec]
Phytoecia compacta compacta
Phytoecia compacta compacta
Phytoecia (Paracoptosia) compacta compacta ♀  [Photo © M.Hoskovec]

Subfamilia: Lamiinae Latreille, 1825
Tribus: Phytoeciini Mulsant, 1839
Genus: Phytoecia Dejean, 1835
Subgenus: Paracoptosia Danilevsky, 2017
Species: Phytoecia (Paracoptosia) compacta (Ménétries, 1832)
Subspecies: Phytoecia (Paracoptosia) compacta compacta (Ménétries, 1832)