Rhagium (Megarhagium) caucasicum Reitter, 1889
ssp. caucasicum Reitter, 1889

Subfamilia: LEPTURINAE  /  Tribus: RHAGIINI
Rhagium caucasicum caucasicum
[Photo © M.Hoskovec]

Dolocerus reichii
[Photo © David Navrátil]

Rhagium caucasicum has been described as Rhagium mordax var. caucasicum from Ordubad by Edmund Reitter in 1889 [❖].

Body length:12 - 18 mm
Life cycle:2 years
Adults in:June - July
Host plant:polyphagous in deciuous trees
Distribution:Georgia, Armenia, Turkey, Azerbaidjan, Iran [✧]


The depicted living beetle was collected on the 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 a.s.l., Syunik Province, South Armenia) on June 7th, 2012. The mounted specimen was collected in Tashtun environs (2000 m a.s.l., Zengezur Mts., Syunik Province, South Armenia) on June 16, 2014.

Collected by M.Hoskovec and T.Lengál


[❖]
Reitter E.:
Neue Coleopteren aus Europa, den angrenzenden Ländern und Sibirien, mit Bemerkungen über bekannte Arten. Siebenter Theil..
Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift, Berlin 33 (2): 273-288, 1889. [download pdf icon]


[✧]
Miroshnikov A.I.:
Myths and reality: critical remarks on M.L. Danilevsky’s monograph, “Longicorn beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycoidea) of Russia and adjacent countres. Part 1”. Moscow: HSC, 2014. 518 p.
Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 12 (1): 181-214, 2016. [download pdf icon]


Rhagium caucasicum caucasicum
Rhagium caucasicum caucasicum
[Photo © M.Hoskovec]

Subfamilia: Lepturinae Latreille, 1802
Tribus: Rhagiini Kirby, 1837
Genus: Rhagium Fabricius, 1775
Subgenus: Megarhagium Reitter, 1913
Species: Rhagium (Megarhagium) caucasicum Reitter, 1913
Subspecies: Rhagium (Megarhagium) caucasicum caucasicum Reitter, 1889