Anthaxia
(Haplanthaxia) laticeps laticeps Abeille de Perrin,
1900?
BUPRESTINAE
Size:
xx mm. Host plant:Pinus sp.. Life cycle: adults emerging in May-June. Distribution: Greece, Cyprus, Crete, Turkey,
Syria.
New record for North Africa and Libya: Cyrenaica.
Taknis, 05-06/2004,
ex larva Pinus sp. (plantation). Surprisingly it is A.
l. laticeps and not A. l. navratili which is the
sub-species found in the nearby Agean islands (D. Baiocchi comm.).