Notes on longhorn beetles of Lebanon (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)

Abstract

First records of four longhorn beetles to the fauna of Lebanon with list of the species collected by the members of the Hungarian Natural History Museum and cooperating partners in Lebanon between 2015 and 2018. With 42 figures.

First Report of Nathrius brevipennis (Mulsant) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae) in Australia, with Notes on Diagnostic Characters, Biology and Habits, Distribution, and Hosts

“…Host records exist across 42 genera and 22 plant families (genera are listed alphabetically within plant families). Anacardiaceae: Pistacia (Ambrus et al 2014;La Mantia et al 2010;Németh et al 2019), Pistacia lentiscus L. (Duffy 1957;Linsley 1963;Normand 1937;Papp 1988;Sama 2002;Sama et al 2010;Villiers 1946), Pistacia terebinthus L. (Sama et al 2010); Araliaceae: Hedera (Özdikmen 2021), Hedera helix L. (Schimitschek 1944); Araucariaceae: Araucaria angustifolia (Bertol.) Kuntze (Barriga et al 1993); Betulaceae: Alnus (Cherepanov 1988;Švácha and Danilevsky 1988), Corylus (Linsley 1963;Sturani 1981;Švácha and Danilevsky 1988), Corylus avellana L. (Bosq 1948); Cannabaceae: Celtis (Halperin andHolzschuh 1993, as cited in Sama et al 2010;Sama 2002); Cornaceae: Cornus (Švácha and Danilevsky 1988), Cornus sanguinea L. (Müller 1949(Müller -1953Sama 2002); Cupressaceae: Cupressus (Linsley 1963;Özdikmen 2021;Picard 1919Picard , 1929, Cupressus sempervirens L. (Sama 2002); Fabaceae: Ceratonia (La Mantia et al 2010;Linsley 1963;Özbek et al 2015), Ceratonia siliqua L. (Ambrus et al 2014;Dauber 2004;…”

“…(Di Iorio 2004), Quercus robur L. (Halperin andHolzschuh 1993, as cited in Sama et al 2010;Sama 2002), Quercus wislizeni A.DC. (MacRae and Rice 2007); Juglandaceae: Juglans (Linsley 1963;Mayet 1903;Németh et al 2019;Švácha and Danilevsky 1988), Juglans californica S. Watson (Linsley 1963), Juglans regia L. (Ambrus et al 2014;Barriga et al 1993;Bosq 1948;Di Iorio 2004;Linsley 1933Linsley , 1963Middlekauff and Underhill 1949;Özbek et al 2015;Özdikmen 2021;Sama 2002;Santas 1984;Tyson 1966); Lauraceae: Laurus nobilis L. (Bosq 1943(Bosq , 1948Di Iorio 1996, 2004Linsley 1963), Persea americana Mill. (Barriga et al 1993); Moraceae: Ficus (Linsley 1963;Picard 1919Picard , 1929, Ficus carica L. (Barriga et al 1993;Di Iorio 2004;Middlekauff and Underhill 1949;Özdikmen 2021), Maclura pomifera (Raf.…”

“…Populus (Sturani 1981), Salix (Barbier 1943;Duffy 1953Duffy , 1960La Mantia et al 2010;Linsley 1963;Nicolas 1891;Özdikmen 2021;Palmqvist 1945;Plavilstshikov 1940, as cited in Gressitt 1951Reineck 1919;Sama et al 2010;Schimitschek 1944;Śliwiński 1958;Švácha and Danilevsky 1988), Salix alba L. (Picard 1919;Sama 2002), Salix babylonica L. (Bosq 1948), Salix purpurea L. (Picard 1919), Salix viminalis L. (Bosq 1948;Picard 1919;Sama 2002); Sapindaceae: Acer (Németh et al 2019); Ulmaceae: Ulmus (Halperin 1986;Halperin andHolzschuh 1993, as cited in Sama et al 2010;Sama 2002;Sopow et al 2015), Ulmus pumila L. (Halperin 1986); Viburnaceae: Viburnum (Özdikmen 2021), Viburnum opulus L. (Bosq 1948;Linsley 1963). Kaufmann (1946) reported that "the locust tree" is a host for N. brevipennis, but we suspect that this was an error and that Kaufmann may have misinterpreted the reports of Picard (1919Picard ( , 1929, who referred to Ziziphus lotus, sometimes known commonly as "lotus tree".…”