Phytoecia rufipes rufipes (Olivier, 1795)

Karpinski, Lech, Szczepanski, Wojciech T., lewa, Radoslaw, Walczak, Marcin, Hilszczanski, Jacek, Kruszelnicki, Lech, Los, Krzysztof, Jaworski, Tomasz, Marek Bidas, & Tarwacki, Grzegorz, 2018, New data on the distribution, biology and ecology of the longhorn beetles from the area of South and East Kazakhstan (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae), ZooKeys 805, pp. 59-126 : 99

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).