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НАУКОВІ ЗАПИСКИ ДЕРЖАВНОГО ПРИРОДОЗНАВЧОГО МУЗЕЮ
Випуск 35 Львів, 2019 С. 111-118

УДК 595.768.11:574.9

Zamoroka A.M. , Hleba V.M.
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THE FIRST INTERCEPTION OF AGAPANTHIOLA LEUCASPIS
(COLEOPTERA: CERAMBYCIDAE) IN WESTERN UKRAINE AND REMARKS
ON ITS BIOGEOGRAPHY AND BIONOMY

Agapanthiola leucaspis is a steppic the long horn beetle widely distributed from Pannonian
Plane in Europe to Mongolian Plateau in Asia. A. leucaspis previously was known only from
the Pontic Steppe Region in Ukraine, which includes both Crimea Peninsula and Ukrainian
Mainland. Here we reported the first record of A. leucaspis in Western Ukraine. We assume
that A. leucaspis expands its areal northward in the light of the current climatic changes. We
analyzed global geographical range of A. leucaspis and estimated current borders of its areal.
We also summarized data on A. leucaspis Bionomy including food plants, habitats and life
circle.
Key words: Agapanthiola leucaspis, Cerambycidae, Ukraine.

Agapanthiola leucaspis (Steven, 1817) is one of the two species in genus Agapanthiola
Ganglbauer, 1900. It was described in 1817 by Christian von Steven from the region of the
Caucasus under the name Saperda leucaspis [39]. In the same issue on the page 190 Johan
Wilhelm Dalman described a new species named Saperda cyanella which was the similar to
Steven's S. leucaspis [39]. However, Dalman did not indicate the type locality. Year later,
Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz described Saperda pectoralis from the Caucasus [13], which
in fact was already known S. leucaspis. In the beginning of XX century Ludwig Ganglbauer
insubstantial separated an East Siberian morphs of A. leucaspis as a new species Agapanthia
euterpe [14]. For both species he introduced subgenus Agapanthiola [14].
A. leucaspis is a steppic the long horn beetle widely distributed from Pannonian Plane in
Europe to Mongolian Plateau in Asia. In Ukraine this species was known only from the Pontic
Steppe Region including Crimea Peninsula and Ukraine Mainland [5, 6, 51]. The last two
decades it was noticed far north from its known areal in Kyiv Region and in Chernihiv Region
[43]. In the current study we found A. leucaspis in Western Ukraine at the first time. We
assume that A. leucaspis expanding its areal northward in the light of climatic changes as it
was noticed for other Cerambycidae in the region [48].

Materials and methods

Methods. Insects were manually collected on forage plants on the edge of abandoned
limestone quarry situated east from the village Muzhieve in Berehove district of Zakarpattya
Region, Ukraine (48.184438, 22.711440). Locality is represented by scattered thermophilic
shrubs within the secondary steppe vegetation on the southern slope of the hill.
Material. 1 male 05.V.2018, vlg. Muzhieve, Berehove district, Zakarpattya Region,
Ukraine, col. Vasyl Hleba.
Diagnosis. Body dark cyan colored, 6-9 mm in length. The lower part of the eye is in
three times shorter than lengths of the cheek. Scutellum and lateral sides of the thorax covered
by dense decumbent white hairs.