Saperda similis Laicharting, 1784

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 : 101-102

Saperda similis Laicharting, 1784 Fig. 4L

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.

This is a rather rare but widespread species that is distributed from eastern Europe to the Far East ( Danilevsky 2018a). It was discussed in a previous paper concerning the longhorn beetles of Mongolia ( Karpiński et al. 2018).

A single female was beaten down from a dead willow in a mountain deciduous forest dominated by Populus and Salix .

The collected specimen represents the white pubescence form (var. albopubescens Pic, 1925), which is characteristic for central-east Asia but rather rare in Europe (e.g. the Czech Republic, France). Very similar specimens are deposited in Abdysalom Kadyrov’s collection (Dushanbe) that represents cerambycid material from Tajikistan.