Phymatodes Mulsant, 1839

Cebeci, Hüseyin, Özdikmen, Hüseyin & Turgut, Semra, 2011, Callidiine species in Turkey with zoogeographical remarks and some interesting and rare records (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae), Journal of Natural History 45 (7 - 8), pp. 475-483 : 480

Phymatodes Mulsant, 1839

The genus is represented in Turkey by four species belonging to three subgenera: the nominotypical subgenus, Melasmetus Reitter, 1913 and Phymatodellus Reitter, 1913 . P. (Melasmetus) femoralis (Menetries, 1832) has been recorded in Turkey only from Istanbul province in the north-west, as P. femoralis demelti Heyrovski, 1961 . So the species is represented only by this subspecies in Turkey now. The nominotypical subspecies, which was described from Caucasus, is distributed only in Caucasus and Iran. P. (s. str.) testaceus (Linnaeus, 1758) has been reported by various authors from different localities in Turkey as cited in Özdikmen 2007, 2008. It is distributed rather widely in Turkey. P. (Phymatodellus) magnanii Sama and Rapuzzi, 1999 is known only from the type localities of Antalya and İçel provinces. So it is distributed only in southern and south-western Turkey. P. (Phymatodellus) rufipes (Fabricius, 1777) has been reported in Turkey by a few authors, from various localities in both the north and south. It is represented by two subspecies in Turkey: P. rufipes rufipes in northern Turkey and P. rufipes syriacum (Pic, 1891) in southern Turkey.

Zoogeographically, P. (M.) femoralis has SW-Asiatic (Anatolo-Caucasian + Irano- Caucasian + Irano-Anatolian), P. (s. str.) testaceus has Holaractic, P. (Phymatodellus) magnanii has Anatolian and P. (Phymatodellus) rufipes has European chorotype.