Mesosa myops (Dalman, 1817)

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 : 96

Mesosa myops (Dalman, 1817)

Material examined.

East Kazakhstan Region: Putintsevo [ Путинцево] env. (49°52'N, 84°21'E), 472 m a.s.l., 21-22 VI 2017, 1♂, 1♀, leg. WTS; 1♂, 2♀♀, (IV 2018 ex cult.) 1♂, from Salix sp., leg. LK; 1♀, leg. MW; Bykovo [ Быково] env. (49°39'N, 84°33'E), 570 m a.s.l., 24 VI 2017, 1♂, 3 larvae, (24 VII 2017 ex larva) 1♂, from Populus sp., leg. MW.

Remarks.

This species is distributed from Eastern Europe through Siberia, including northern Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China, to the Far East and Sakhalin ( Cherepanov 1990c, Danilevsky 2018a). It was widely discussed in a previous paper concerning the longhorn beetles of Mongolia ( Karpiński et al. 2018).

The imagines were collected on the bark or beaten down from the dead branches and boughs of a few deciduous tree species (mostly of middle-aged birches Betula ). Two specimens were additionally reared from the collected wood material of a fallen poplar Populus trunk and a thin willow Salix trunk.