Lamia textor (Linnaeus, 1758)

Material examined.

East Kazakhstan Region: Putintsevo [ Путинцево] env. (49°52'N, 84°21'E), 472 m a.s.l., 22 VI 2017, 1♀, leg. MB, coll. MW.

Remarks.

Lamia textor is a typical Palaearctic species that is distributed from Spain to Japan, including the Caucasus, Iran and Turkey (Danilevskaya et al. 2009). The larvae develop at the basal part of trunks and in the roots of various deciduous tree species, mainly of the poplars Populus and willows Salix .

A single female was beaten down from a young willow trunk in the habitat of a mountain deciduous forest.