Anthaxia

Ruzzier, Enrico & Ataş, Mustafa, 2024, Wood-Boring Beetles (Coleoptera) Affecting Vitis vinifera L. (Vitaceae) Cultivation in Southeastern Turkey, The Coleopterists Bulletin 78 (2), pp. 165-170 : 166-167

ANthaxIa ( ANthaxIa ) bIcoloR bIcoloR Falderman, 1835

Specimens: 6 exx., Turkey: Diyarbakir (Çinar), 37°37′43′′ N 40°30′54′′ E, 814 m, M. Ataş leg.

General Distribution: Azerbaijan, Armenia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, North Macedonia, Romania, Russia (South European Territory), Syria, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine ( Löbl and Löbl 2016).

Distribution in Turkey: Izmir (Menemen) by Sahlberg (1913); listed from Izmir (Bornova) by Gül-Zümreoğlu (1975); Artvin (Yusufeli) and Erzurum (Ispir) ( Tozlu 1997). The data presented here constitute the first record of this species in Diyarbakir (Çinar).

Larval Host Plants: Citrus sp. ( Rutaceae ), Salix spp. ( Salicaceae ), Quercus ilex L. ( Fagaceae ) (Karaman and Tezcan 1998); Fraxinus spp. ( Oleaceae ), Compositae ( Bílý 1979); Acer undulatum Pojark. ( Sapindaceae ), Oleaceae ( Cebeci et al. 2018) ; V. vinifera represents a new host record.

Notes. The species was reared from V. vinifera branches of the Mazrone variety, where it apparently affected the vitality of the branches.