''Coptosia compacta'' is a species of
beetle in the family
Cerambycidae. It was described by
Édouard Ménétries
Édouard Ménétries (Paris, France, 2 October 1802 – St. Petersburg, Imperial Russia, 10 April 1861) was a French entomologist, zoologist, and herpetologist. He is best known as the founder of the Russian Entomological Society.
Ménétries w ...
in 1832, originally under the genus ''
Saperda
''Saperda'' is a genus of flat-faced longhorn beetles belonging to the family Cerambycidae, subfamily Lamiinae. The genus was erected by Johan Christian Fabricius
Johan Christian Fabricius (7 January 1745 – 3 March 1808) was a Danish zoolo ...
''. It is known from
Israel,
Iran,
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
,
Armenia,
Jordan, and
Turkey.
"''Coptosia compacta''"
''BioLib''. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
Subspecies
* ''Coptosia compacta compacta'' (Ménétries, 1832)
* ''Coptosia compacta sancta'' (Reiche, 1877)
References
Saperdini
Beetles described in 1832
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