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. text Zootaxa 2021 2021-10-20 5057 1 69 86 journal article 3907 10.11646/zootaxa.5057.1.4 4becfc46-f283-4a33-9f7a-2b4d041a7118 1175-5326 5585534 E20C7DF7-5EFC-40E1-BBE2-CFDAA05672AE Nalassus laevicoctostriatus ( Goeze, 1777 ) This species was erroneously recorded for Anatolia by many authors including Nabozhenko (2020) after the work of Kaszab (1968) , who recorded it for the former Yugoslavia in the paper on Turkish fauna. Kaszab put the name in brackets suggesting that the species can be potentially found in Turkey . The eastern border of the range of N. laevioctostriatus is the territory of Poland ( Iwan et al. 2012 ). As a result, this species must be excluded from the Turkish fauna.