Lamia textor (Linnaeus, 1758)

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 : 96-97

Lamia textor (Linnaeus, 1758)

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.

Lamia textor is a typical Palaearctic species that is distributed from Spain to Japan, including the Caucasus, Iran and Turkey ( Danilevskaya et al. 2009). The larvae develop at the basal part of trunks and in the roots of various deciduous tree species, mainly of the poplars Populus and willows Salix .

A single female was beaten down from a young willow trunk in the habitat of a mountain deciduous forest.