ssp. compacta (Ménétries, 1832)
[= Phytoecia (Coptosia) compacta compacta (Ménétries, 1832)]
Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: PHYTOECIINI
Phytoecia (Paracoptosia) compacta compacta I: Iran / T: Turkey [Photo © David Navrátil]
Populations of Phytoecia compacta compacta are extremely variable in size and habitus, whole taxon needs deep taxonomic revision with use of the modern genetic and chemometric methods. The upper picture shows differences among specimens from Iran and SE Turkey. Turkish specimens, which are subjects of "live" photography are massive, dark and mostly with reduced pubescence. Also the host plants are different (Solenanthus × Echium). Species was moved into a newly estabilished subgenus Paracoptosia by Mikhail Danilevsky in 2017 [✩]. According to M. Rejzek et al. [❖] in SE Turkey Phytoecia (Paracoptosia) compacta compacta develops in Solenanthus stamineus (Boraginaceae).
Body length: 10 - 20 mm Life cycle: 1 year Adults in: May - June Host plant: Solenanthus stamineus (Boraginaceae) in SE Turkey, Echium sp. in Iran Distribution: Armenia, Iran, Turkey
The depicted living beetles and mounted ♀T were collected on Solenanthus stamineus in summit plateaus of Nemrut Dagi Mt. (Adiyaman prov., Anatolia, SE Turkey) in June 2011.Mounted beetles (♂I / ♀I) were collected in Askestan environs (1750 m a.s.l., Ardabīl province, Iran) on May 27-29, 2019.
Collected by David Navrátil, M.Hoskovec and P.Jelínek
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Rejzek M., Sama G., Alziar G.:
Host plants of several herb-feeding Cerambycidae mainly from east Mediterranean region (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Biocosme Mésogéen 17 (4): 263-294, 2001. [download]
Kasatkin D.G.:
A new subgenus of the genus Phytoecia Dejean, 1835 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae).
Russian Entomological Journal 24(2): 127-131, 2015. [download[✩]
Danilevsky M.L.:
A New Subgenus of the Longicorn Genus Phytoecia Dejean, 1835 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) from the Palaearctic Region.
Entomological Review 97 (8): 1137-1139, 2017. [download
Phytoecia (Paracoptosia) compacta compacta ♂ [Photo © M.Hoskovec]
Phytoecia (Paracoptosia) compacta compacta ♀ [Photo © M.Hoskovec]
Subfamilia: Lamiinae Latreille, 1825
Tribus: Phytoeciini Mulsant, 1839
Genus: Phytoecia Dejean, 1835
Subgenus: Paracoptosia Danilevsky, 2017
Species: Phytoecia (Paracoptosia) compacta (Ménétries, 1832)
Subspecies: Phytoecia (Paracoptosia) compacta compacta (Ménétries, 1832)