Phytoecia rufipes rufipes (Olivier, 1795)

Material examined.

Almaty Region: Kaskeleng [ Каскелен] (43°12'N, 76°38'E), 825 m a.s.l., 13 V 2017, 1♀, leg. TJ, coll. RP.

Remarks.

This taxon is distributed from Southern Europe through North Africa, Asia Minor, the Caucasus and the Near East to Central Asia and South Siberia. The second subspecies - P. rufipes latior Pic, 1895 - is only known from some regions in Syria and Turkey (Danilevsky 2018a). Phytoecia rufipes is an oligophagous species whose larvae develop in the roots of various herbaceous plants, particularly in Foeniculum vulgare, Ferula galbanifera and other Apiaceae . The adults can be found on their host plants from May to July (Bense 1995).