Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: DORCADIINI
[Photo © Karel Hodek]
Beautiful, rare and endemic Dorcadion buresi, described by Czech entomologist František Štěrba from Xanthi (North Greece) in 1922 [❖], is thanks its size, body shape and intensive white-grey pubescence (in look more similar to Central-Asian Dorcadion species) really unique beetle among European members of the genus.
Body length: ♂♂ 17-19 mm / ♀♀ 18-21 mm Life cycle: 1 year Adults in: March - June Host plant: roots of grasses (Poaceae) Distribution: an endemic species to North Greece
The depicted beetles were photographed near Xanthi by our friend Karel Hodek in April 2016.
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Štěrba F.:
Dorcadion bureši n. sp. (Col.)
Časopis České Společnosti Entomologické / Acta Societatis Entomologicae Cechosloveniae 19 (1-2): 1-2, 1922 [download]
Pesarini C. and Sabbadini A.:
Ricerche sui Dorcadionini di Grecia IV. Le specie della Macedonia e della Tracia (Coleoptera Cerambycidae).
Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milano 151 (2): 179-216, 2010. [download
[Photo © Karel Hodek]
Subfamilia: Lamiinae Latreille, 1825
Tribus: Dorcadiini Thomson, 1860
Genus: Dorcadion Dalman, 1817
Subgenus: Cribridorcadion Pic, 1901
Species: Dorcadion (Cribridorcadion) buresi Štěrba, 1922