[= Crossotus heimschi Peyerimhoff, 1922]
Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: CROSSOTINI
[Photo © David Navrátil]
Body length: 15 - 23 mm Life cycle: 2 years [?] Adults in: May - July Host plant: Vachellia tortilis (Acacia tortilis) Distribution: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia [❖]
The depicted mounted male (ssp. heimschi Peyerimhoff, 1923) was reared from a larva found in Souss Masse Draa (35 km SE of Zagorawas, Morocco) on May 7, 2018. The mounted female (nominal subspecies) was reared from a larva found in Acacia in M'Ssici (Mecissi) environs (840 m a.s.l., Alnif Cercle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco) in June 2008. The depicted living beetle was reared from a larva found in Vachellia tortilis in Wadi Terhin (Lybia, N24°59′10″ E11°47′04″, 859 m, 10.VI.2002).Collected by our friends Milan Šárovec, Petr Kabátek and Jean-Claude Ringenbach
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Sama G., Ringenbach, J.-C. and Rejzek M.:
A preliminary survey of the Cerambycidae of Lybia (Coleoptera).
Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 110 (4/5): 439-454, 2005. [download]
Sudre J., Teocchi P., Sama G. & Rousset F.:
Les genres Crossotus, Biobessoides et Epidichostates (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Crossotini). Notes préliminaires pour une révision du genre Crossotus, avec remarques synonymiques et bionomiques sur les genre Corus, Biobessoides et Epidichostates.
Magellanes: Collection systématique 15: 1-80, 2007.Adelbauer Karl & Beck R.:
Katalog und Fotoatlasder Bockkäfer Äthiopiens (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Taita Publishers, Hradec Králové, Czechia, 1-312, 2015.
[Photo © Jean-Claude Ringenbach]
Subfamilia: Lamiinae Latreille, 1825
Tribus: Crossotini Thomson, 1864
Genus: Crossotus Audinet-Serville, 1835
Species: Crossotus subocellatus (Fairmaire, 1886)