Body length:	7 - 13 mm
Life cycle:	1 year
Adults in:	April - June
Host plant:	Centaurea calcitrapa [?; ❖]
Distribution:	Armenia, Cyprus, Syria, Turkey

The depicted beetle was collected by sweeping of the vegetation in Mersin environs (Anatolia, SW Turkey).

Collected by M.Hoskovec

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Ambrus R., Grosser W., Hrbek J.:
Contribution to the knowledge of longhorn beetles from Cyprus (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Humanity Space - International Almanac 3 (2): 173-190., 2014. [download ]

Özdikmen H. and Turgut S.:
An overview on the W-palaearctic subgenus Phytoecia (Helladia) Fairmaire, 1864 with a new subspecies Phytoecia (Helladia) humeralis caneri ssp. n. from Turkey (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae).
Munis Entomology & Zoology 5 (2): 317-343, 2010. [download ]