Two new species and new records of lichen-feeding darkling beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Helopini) from Turkey with notes on bionomics and trophic relations
Author
Nabozhenko, Maxim V.
Precaspian Institute of Biological Resources of the Daghestan Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, M. Gadzhiev str. 45, Makhachkala, Republic of Dagestan, 367000, Russia. & Dagestan State University, M. Gadzhiev str. 43 a, Makhachkala, Republic of Dagestan, 367000, Russia.
Author
Keskin, Bekir
0000-0002-6662-8736
Ege University, Bornova-Izmir 35100 Turkey. & bekir. keskin @ ege. edu. tr; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6662 - 8736
bekir.keskin@ege.edu.tr
Author
Keskin, Nurşen Alpagut
0000-0001-6614-8815
Ege University, Bornova-Izmir 35100 Turkey. & nursen. alpagut @ ege. edu. tr; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6614 - 8815
nursen.alpagut@ege.edu.tr
Author
Gagarina, Ludmila V.
0000-0003-3213-1673
Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor Popov str. 2, St Petersburg, 197376, Russia. gagarinalv @ binran. ru; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3213 - 1673
gagarinalv@binran.ru
Author
Nabozhenko, Svetlana
Rostov Branch of the Russian Entomological Society, Rostov-on-Don, Russia.
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-10-20
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journal article
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Odocnemis amanosica
Nabozhenko & Keskin, 2016
Material.
1♂
,
2♀
(
ZDEU
):
Turkey
, Hatay Prov.,
Çamlıyayla
,
36°12ʹ49.59ʺN
/
35°57ʹ27.54ʺE
,
363 m
,
6.04.2021
(leg.
B. Keskin
, M. & S. Nabozhenko)
.
Distribution and bionomics.
This species was known from the
type
locality in the south of Hatay Province and from North
Syria
(
Latakia
, Akra Mts.). It was previously found on
Pinus nigra
at
1480 m
among parmelian lichens. We additionally found this species on
Pinus brutia
at
363 m
.
One of the host lichens is
Cladonia fimbriata
(L.) Fr. (
Cladoniaceae Zenker
) (
Fig. 6B
). Beetles feed on this lichen at the base of rotten stumps.