Callimus semicyaneus (original) (raw)

Callimus (Procallimus) semicyaneus Pic, 1905
[= Callimus (Protocallimus) egregium var. semicyaneum Pic, 1905]
[= Procallimus egregius semicyaneus (Pic, 1905)]
[= Procallimus semicyaneus (Pic, 1905)]

Subfamilia: CERAMBYCINAE / Tribus: HYBODERINI

[Photo © David Navrátil, click on the picture for 4K resolution]

Callimus semicyaneus, a very rare and not often collected species occuring in Greece and Turkey, has been described from Taygetos Mts. (Peloponnese, Greece) by Maurice Pic in 1905 [❖]. **Body length:**9 - 10 mm **Life cycle:**2 years **Adults in:**May - July **Host plant:**unknown - probably polyphagous in deciduous trees **Distribution:**Greece, Turkey [✮] The mounted specimen was collected on flowers in Avgadi environs (800-1100 m a.s.l., 35 km N of Erdemli, Mersin province, South Turkey) on June 16-20, 1996. The depicted living beetle was photographed in Anogia village environs (Sparta, Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece) on June 5, 2024.Collected by Michal Hoskovec and our friend Robert Borek [❖] Pic M.:Notes Entomologiques et Descriptions.L'Échange, Revue Linnéenne 21 (252): 185-187, 1905. [download ] [✮] Özdikmen H.:The presence of Callimus semicyaneus Pic, 1905 in Turkey with new and overlooked data (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).Munis Entomology & Zoology 16 (2): 816-818, 2021. [download ]

[Photo © Robert Borek]

[Photo © Robert Borek]