Mallosia herminae (original) (raw)

Mallosia (Eumallosia) herminae Reitter, 1890
[= Semnosia herminae (Reitter, 1890)]

Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: SAPERDINI

[Photo © David Navrátil & 8K postprocessing M.Hoskovec]

Mallosia herminae, occuring in Azerbaijan, Iran, and Eastern Turkey, has been described from Araxesthal (Araks river valley, probably in Azerbaijan part) by Edmund Reitter in 1890 [▽]. Like most species of the genus, Mallosia herminae is ecologically associated with big Apiaceae plants close to_Ferula_ and Prangos in the roots of which its larvae develop.

Body length:	16 - 40 mm
Life cycle:	1 year
Adults in:	May - June
Host plant:	Ferula spp. and Prangos spp. (Apiaceae)
Distribution:	Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkey (Gümüshane, Van, Sirnak, Bingöl, Erzurum; ❖)

The depicted mounted beetles were collected in Sīroo (سرو‎) environs (1900-2000 m a.s.l., Sumay-ye Beradust district, Urmia county, Āzarbāyjān-e Gharbī province, Iran) on May 30-31, 2017. The living specimens were collected in: ♂ - Lowlakān (لولكان) village environs (Central district of Oshnavieh County, Āzarbāyjān-e Gharbī province, Iran) on May 25, 2019; ♀ - Serow (سرو) environs (1950 m; Sumay-ye Beradust district, Urmia county, Azarbāyjān-e Gharbī province, Iran) on May 26, 2019.

Collected by David Navrátil and Petr Jelínek

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[▽]
Reitter E.:
Uebersicht der mir bekannten Mallosia-Arten.
Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 9 (8): 241-243, 1890. [download ]

[❖]
Özdikmen H. and Aytar F.:
Subgeneric arrangement of Mallosia Mulsant, 1862 with three new subgenera, and a new species from Turkey (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Munis Entomology & Zoology 7 (2): 653-662, 2012. [download ]

Mallosia (Eumallosia) herminae ♂ [Photo © Petr Jelínek]

Mallosia (Eumallosia) herminae ♂ [Photo © Petr Jelínek]

Mallosia (Eumallosia) herminae ♀ [Photo © Petr Jelínek]