Eulasia pareyssei Brullé, 1832

Mesudiye, MUĞLA ● Turkey

Description: Head, pronotum and scutellum green, very shiny, rarely bluish or goldish. Elythrae brown-yellow, with black hairs and three longitudinal stripes, with whitish hair. Yellow pygidium.
The family Glaphyridae includes 6 genera and about 190 species in the Holoarctic region of which only one (Lichnanthe) in the Neoarctic region.

Biology: Glaphyrid beetles are active fliers during the day.

Distribution: Greece, South of former Yugoslavia, Turkey.


References
Baraud J., 1990. Contribution à la connaissance du genre Eulasia Truqui (Coleoptera Scarabaeoidea Glaphyridae), Revue suisse Zool., Tome 97.
Sabatinelli G., The Scarab of the Levant/Glaphyridae