Anaesthetis confossicollis Baeckmann, 1903

Karpiński, Lech, Enkhnasan, Davaadorj, Boldgiv, Bazartseren, Kruszelnicki, Lech, Iderzorig, Badamnyambuu, Gantulga, Temerlen, Dorjsuren, Altanchimeg & Szczepański, Wojciech T., 2021, Longhorned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of southeastern Mongolia with particular emphasis on the genus Anoplistes Audinet-Serville, 1833 (Cerambycinae: Trachyderini), Zootaxa 5081 (4), pp. 451-482 : 468

Anaesthetis confossicollis Baeckmann, 1903

Literature data. Sükhbaatar: 12 km SW of Dariganga [Дарьганг], Moltsog-Els [ур. Молцог-Элс] [ca. 45.437, 114.139], 17.07.1976, 1 ex. ( Namhaidorzh 1979) .

Remarks. This species is distributed in the Ussuri-Primor’e region, Mongolia, northeast China, the Korean peninsula, and Japan ( Cherepanov 1991a; Danilevsky 2020).

According to Cherepanov (1991a), A. confossicollis inhabits broad-leaved forests and it is ecologically associated with Quercus , however, it seems more likely that larvae of this species can also feed on other deciduous woody and shrub species, similar to its close relative, Anaesthetis testacea (Fabricius, 1781) , which, however, can easily be distinguished by the more uniform fine punctation and very dense pronotal pubescence.

Imagines emerge from mid-June to the second half of July. This species was found in large numbers in fire-ravaged forest ( Cherepanov 1991a).