Phytoecia flavipes (original) (raw)

Phytoecia (Phytoecia) flavipes (Fabricius, 1801)

Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: SAPERDINI

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

Phytoecia flavipes, an endemic species to Morocco, has been described as Saperda flavipes from Tanger environs (Morocco) by Johann Christian Fabricius in 1801 [❖].

Body length:	10 – 16 mm
Life cycle:	1 year
Adults in:	April - June
Host plant:	Eryngium triquetrum [▽]
Distribution:	an endemic species to Morocco

The depicted beetle was collected on the host plant leafs (Eryngium triquetrum) in Taounate (تاونات) environs (350 m a.s.l., Rif Mts., Taounate province, Fès-Meknès region, Morocco) on April 15, 2024.

Collected by David Navrátil

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Fabricius J.C.:
Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta. Secundum classes ordines, genera, species adjectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus.
Hafniae, C. G. Proft 1 (2): 538pp [page 308], 1793. [download ]

Sama G.:
Phytoecia flavipes (Fabricius, 1801) a valid species, not a synonym of P. rufipes (Olivier, 1801) (Insecta, Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Steenstrupia, Copenhagen 14 (5): 121-125, 1988.

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Trócoli S.:
Actualización del catálogo de Longicornios de Marruecos Actualisation du catalogue des Longicornes du Maroc (Parte IV / Partie IV : Cerambycidae : Lamiinae).
Revue de l'Association Roussillonnaise d'Entomologie (R.A.R.E.) 29 (1): 26-65, 2020. [download ]

Male genitalia of Phytoecia flavipes (Fabricius, 1801) in detail: A. aedeagus, B. lateral lobes, C. subgenital plate.
[Photo © David Navrátil]