Turkish Journal of Zoology
DOI
10.3906/zoo-1402-27
Abstract
This paper updates our present knowledge on the geographical distribution and host plant relationships of Turkish species of the sap- and pollen-beetle family Nitidulidae. Pria zenobia Jelínek, 1997 from eastern Mediterranean areas is synonymized with Pria angustula Cooper, 1982, from South Africa (syn. nov.). The unknown ovipositor of Xerogethes osellai Audisio & Jelínek, 2000, a species endemic to central Turkey, is described, and the first information on its biology is reported. Glischrochilus quadripunctatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Tunceli Province) and Pityophagus quercus Reitter, 1877 (Balikesir Province) are first recorded for the Turkish fauna. The distributions of Glischrochilus hortensis (Geoffroy in Fourcroy, 1785), Soronia grisea (Linnaeus, 1758), Brassicogethes cristofaroi (Audisio & De Biase, 2005), Stachygethes zarudnyi (Kirejtshuk, 1984), S. assimilis (Sturm, 1845), Sagittogethes biondii (Audisio, 1988), and S. hoffmanni (Reitter, 1871) are updated. The previously unknown larval host plants of other Turkish and Balkan Meligethinae are identified, and Clypeogethes chlorocyaneus (Jelínek & Audisio, 1977) is first reported from Greece. Finally, a new updated checklist of the Turkish Nitidulidae is presented.
Keywords
Coleoptera, Nitidulidae, Turkey, geographical distribution, host plants, new synonymy, checklist
First Page
314
Last Page
322
Recommended Citation
AVGIN, SAKİNE SERAP; ANTONINI, Gloria; LASON, Andrzej; JANSSON, Nicklas; ABACIGİL, TUBA ÖNCÜL; VARLI, SAKİN VURAL; BIASE, Alessio DE; and AUDISIO, Paolo
(2015)
"New data on distribution, ecology, and taxonomy of Turkish Nitidulidae (Coleoptera),"
Turkish Journal of Zoology: Vol. 39:
No.
2, Article 14.
https://doi.org/10.3906/zoo-1402-27
Available at:
https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/zoology/vol39/iss2/14
