Phytoecia (Parobereina) vittipennis pravei was described as Phytoecia (Obereina) pravei by Nikolai N. Plavilstshikov from Ordubad environs (nowadays in Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan) in 1926 [❖]. Taxon was moved into a newly estabilished subgenus Parobereina by Mikhail Danilevsky in 2018 [✩].

Body length:	7 - 10 mm
Life cycle:	1 year
Adults in:	May - June
Host plant:	Achillea arabica [?]
Distribution:	Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Turkmenistan, E Turkey

The depicted beetle was collected in Yerevan environs (Armenia) on June 18, 2012.

Collected by Pavel Jelínek

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[❖]
Plavilstshikov N.N.:
Etude Synoptique sur les Espèces de Obereina Ganglb. (Coleoptera, Cerambycidæ).
Annals and Magazine of Natural History, London 9 (18): 331–341, 1926. [download ]

[✩]
Danilevsky M.L.:
A new Palaearctic subgenus of genus Phytoecia Dejean, 1835 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Zootaxa 4521 (1): 129-132, 2018. [download ]

Danilevsky M.L.:
A new species of Phytoecia (Neomusaria) Plavilstshikov, 1928 from Armenia and a new species of Phytoecia (Parobereina) Danilevsky, 2018 from Iran (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Zootaxa 4747 (1): 196-200, 2020. [download ]