Body length:	♂ 11.5-18.5 mm / ♀ 12.2-16.6 mm
Life cycle:	1 - 2 years
Adults in:	May - July
Host plant:	prefers Quercus spp.
Distribution:	Nakhichevan region of Azerbaijan, Armenia [❖]

The depicted beetles were collected mating on trunk of falled dead Caucasian oak (Quercus macranthera) found in the edge of sparse mountain oak forest 3 km West of Lichk (Լիճք,; 2300 m, Syunik Province, South Armenia) on June 7th, 2012.

Collected by M.Hoskovec

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Lazarev M.A.:
New subspecies of Plagionotus arcuatus (Linnaeus, 1758) from Transcaucasia and Kyrgyzstan (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Studies and Reports, Taxonomical Series 6 (1-2): 149-164, 2010. [download ]

Subfamilia: Cerambycinae Latreille, 1802
Tribus: Clytini Mulsant, 1839
Genus: Plagionotus Latreille, 1829
Subgenus: Plagionotus Latreille, 1829
Species: Plagionotus (Plagionotus) arcuatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Subspecies: Plagionotus (Plagionotus) arcuatus multiinterruptus Pic, 1933