Updated: 06.08.2018 ----- LIST OF TAXONS --- REMARCS --- REFERENCES

Several notes were added:

#468
      According to A.-M. Dutrillaux & B. Dutrillaux (2018) the male sex chromosome formula of Grammoptera ruficornis is XY as in all Rhagiini and Oxymirini, while in Lepturini it is X0. So, the tribal position of the genus is doubtful. The genus was placed in Lepturini by Plavilstshikov (1936), Villier (1968), Löbl & Smetana (2010) and others, but to Rhagiini by Švácha (Švácha, Danilevsky, 1989: 13), Bartenev (2009: 69). Now P.Švácha (personal message, 2018) accepted Grammoptera inside Lepturini.

#469
      According to Danilevsky (2018a):
Tetrops (Mimosophronica Breuning, 1943a), type species Mimosophronica strandiella Breuning, 1943 (= Tetrops formosus Baeckmann, 1903) is a valid name for 5 Central Asian species including T. elaeagni Plavilstshikov, 1954 (with 3 subspecies: T. e. elaeagni; T. e. shapovalovi Danilevsky, 2018a - type locality: Kazakhstan, north-east foothills of Karatau Ridge, Kyzylsu River, eastwards Birlik, 43°56'N, 67°40'E, 352 m; T. e. plaviltshikovi Kostin, 1973.).

#470
      Purpuricenus coccineus Breit, 1917 (described as a variation of P. globulicollis from “Süd-Italien (Calabrien) bei Sta. Eufemia d’Aspromonte”) was accepted as a valid species name by Rapuzzi & Arcorace (2018).

#471
      Three species were recorded for Albania by Plewa et al. (2018):
Stenopterus atricornis Pic
Oberea (Amaurostoma) taygetana Pic
Phytoecia (Pilemia) angusterufonotata Pic

#472
      Dorcadion pusillum ochrolineatumDascalu, 2018 is described from “East of Romanian Plane (Braila and Buzau counties)” - type locality: “Braila, Lacul Sarat [Salty Lake]”.
      Dorcadion pusillum vasiliscus Dascalu, 2018 is described from “Curvature Subcarpathians (Vrancea and Buzau counties)” - type locality: “Vrancea, Beceni, Izvoru Dulce, mal Slanic peste râu [over Slanic river]”.
      Two synonyms are accepted (Dascalu, 2018): Dorcadion p. pusillum Küster = D. p. berladense Pic.

#473
      A new subgenus PseudopilemiaKasatkin, 2018 of the genus Phytoecia Dejean, 1835 with the type species Saperda hirsutula Frölich, 1793 is described. Four species were included in the new subgenus by its author: Ph. (P.) hirsutula (Frölich, 1793), Ph. (P.) evae D.Marklund et S.Marklund, 2014, Ph.(P.) kruszelnickii Szczepanski et Karpinski, 2017, Ph. (P.) konyaensis Danilevsky, 2010. New synonyms are proposed: Phytoecia (P.) hirsutula (Frölich, 1793) = Ph. (P.) buglanica D.Marklund et S.Marklund, 2014.

      Now I regard Pilemia as a genus as it was accepted by Löbl & Smetana (2010).
Pilemia includs two subgenera:
Pilemia (s. str.)
Pilemia (PseudopilemiaKasatkin, 2018)

 

One note was changed:

#210. G.Sama (2002) proposed to regard Monochamus rosenmuelleri as valid name for M. usussovii on the base of indirect arguments (Svacha’s opinion, that it can not be M. sartor, as it was proposed by Breuning, 1961 and accepted by Bily and Mehl, 1989, because M.sartor absent in the region - Pulkovo) without type study. According to Plavilstshikov (1958), M. sutor = M. rosenmuelleri, and M. sutor is very common in the region. Such name change of one of the most important forest and wood pest can not be regarded as necessary and may cose a greate harm to the international forest protection system and wood industry.
      The name M. rosenmuelleri was used for M. urussovii by D.Telnov (2004), D. Telnov et al. (2005).
      M.Slama (2006) regards M. urussovii (under the name “rosenmuelleri”) as a subspecies of M. sartor. The subspecies was published (Wallin et al., 2013) as M. sartor urussovi.
The species identity of M. urussovii and M. sartor shown on karyological materials (Cesari et al., 2005) was not real, as specimens from Bialowieza Primeval Forest were used as “M. urussovii”, but in fact it was M. sartor.
      According to Slama (1998) M. urussovii absent in Czechia and Slovakia.
Rather typical female of M. sartor from West Ukraine (near Rakhov) is preserved in Zoological Institute (S.-Petersburg). A series of M. sartor from West Belorussia (Belovezhskaya Pushcha) was received by me from A.Pisanenko. So, M. urussovi is replaced here by M. sartor, and does not penetrate to Slovakia or to Poland.
      Several series of M. sartor were received by me for study from different districts of Lithuania (Kazlu Ruda, Širvintos, Šiauliai, Vilnius env., Kaunas env.) from Vytautas Tamutis, so all records of M. urussovii (rosenmuelleri auct.,) for Lithuania were wrong (Danilevsky, 2012c: 119).
      Separate species M. urussovii and M. sartor were accepted by Rossa et al. (2016) on the base of wing venation. Though a zone of hybridization (after secondary contact between the two species in the Holocene) in Bialowiezan forest (Poland) was observed.
      Two subspecies (M.s.sartor and M.s.urussovii) were accepted by Plewa et al. (2018) on the base of different reasons. More over the most western (Scandinavia, Baltic contries, Western Belorussia) populations of “M.s.urussovii” differ noticeably from populatons of European Russia and Asia.