Species was moved into a newly estabilished subgenus Parobereina by Mikhail Danilevsky in 2018 [✩]. Phytoecia (Parobereina) vittipennis is associated with Achillea arabica (Asteraceae) [❖].

Body length:	7 - 10 mm
Life cycle:	1 year
Adults in:	May - June
Host plant:	Achillea arabica
Distribution:	Armenia, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, Lebanon, Israel, Syria, Turkey

The depicted beetle was collected in Eibenthal (Tisové Údolí) village environs (Mehedinți county, SW Romania) on May 28, 2009.

Collected by J. Král

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[❖]
Rejzek M., Sama G., Alziar G., Sádlo J.:
Host Plants of Longhorn Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from the Balkan Peninsula, Asia Minor and Iran.
Biocosme Mésogéen 19 (3): 161-189, [2002] 2003. [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 ]