Familia	Cerambycidae (Latreille, 1802)
Subfamilia	Prioninae (Latreille, 1802)
Tribus	Prionini (Latreille, 1804)
Genus	Mesoprionus (Jakovlev, 1887)
Subgenus
Species	besikanus (Fairmaire, 1855)
Synonyms	patruelis (Sturm, 1843) persicus (Ganglbauer, 1882) schaufussi (Jakovlev, 1887) batelkai (Sláma, 1996) tangerianus (Sláma, 1996)
other names	Prionus patruelis (Sturm, 1843) Prionus besikanus (Fairmaire, 1855) Prionus besikanus (Sama et al., 2002) Prionus persicus (Ganglbauer, 1882) Prionus Prionus schaufussi (Jakovlev, 1887) Prionus besicanus (Lameere, 1912) Prionus Mesoprionus besicanus (Lameere, 1913) Mesoprionus besicanus (Danilevsky, 2000) Prionus batelkai (Sláma, 1996) Mesoprionus batelkai (Danilevsky, 2000) Prionus tangerianus (Sláma, 1996)
Lifezones:	Palaearct
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Distribution:	Israel, Jordan, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Cyprus
Occurrence:	I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII