Microhoria truncata ( Pic, 1895 )

Telnov, Dmitry, 2022, Revisional notes on the genus Microhoria Chevrolat, 1877 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Anthicidae) from the Eastern Mediterranean and Turkey, with new descriptions, an annotated catalogue, and a key, Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 22 (2), pp. 195-312 : 294

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scientific name	Microhoria truncata ( Pic, 1895 )
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Microhoria truncata ( Pic, 1895)

Anthicus truncatus Pic, 1895 : cclxxxiv (description).

Anthicus truncatus – Pic 1901b: 179 (nota); Pic 1911a: 78 (checklist).

Anthicus (Stricticomus) truncatus – Winkler 1927: 841 (checklist).

Anthicus (Stenidius) truncatus – Hariri 1968: 206 (checklist, bibliography).

Stricticomus truncatus – Chandler et al. 2008: 447 (new combination, checklist); Telnov 2010: 22, 29 (synonymy, checklist, record – Turkey); Telnov 2020a: 597 (checklist).

Microhoria truncata – Kejval & Chandler 2020: 96 View Cited Treatment , 120, 123 (new combination, supplementary description, assigned to the M. longiceps species group).

Type material. Not studied.

New material. 4 specimens NME & 1 specimen DTC : N 36°28’55.0” E 36°14’25.6” 97a TÜRKIYE vil. Hatay, Iskenderun, Belen, Belen Geçidi Kiefernforst BF 04.– 11.05.2006, 717 m üNN leg.: SCHNITTER .

This species was redescribed recently ( Kejval & Chandler 2020) and does not require supplementary description.

Distribution. Southern Turkey. Hariri (1968) also mentions “ Syria ”, possibly because the species was originally described from Akbés, a Syrian region at the time of the description, nowadays (as Akbez) a part of Hatay Province of Turkey. Records of this species from Greece refer to M. decolorata (Pic, 1897) , originally described as a variety of M. truncata , raised to species level by Kejval & Chandler (2020).

Chorotype. EMediterranean (3.03 EME), restricted to the eastern part of it.

References

Hariri G. 1968. A list of recorded Insects fauna of Syria. Part 2. Faculty of Agriculture, University of Aleppo, Aleppo. pp. iii + 305, 2 maps.

Kejval Z., Chandler D. S. 2020. Generic revision of the Microhoriini with new species and synonymies from the Palaearctic Region (Coleoptera: Anthicidae). Acta entomologica musei nationalis pragae. 60, No. 1: 95 - 154.

Pic M. 1895. [Diagnoses de plusiers Coleopteres rapportes de Syrie par M. C. Delagrange]. Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de France. 1894: cclxxxiv - cclxxxv.

Pic M. 1901 b. Xylophilides et anthicides captures en Italie et Grece, du 17 avril au 4 juin 1901. Revue scientifique du Bourbonnais et du centre de la France. 14: 173 - 182.

Pic M. 1911 a. Anthicidae; Pars 36. In: Schenkling S. (ed.): Coleopterorum Catalogus. W. Junk, Berlin. pp. 102.

Telnov D. 2010. Nomenclatural notes on Anthicidae and Pyrochroidae (Coleoptera). 3. Latvijas Entomologs. 48: 8 - 16.

Telnov D. 2020 a. Family Anthicidae Latreille, 1819: 575 - 625. In: Iwan D., Lobl I. (eds.): Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 5. Revised and Updated Second Edition. Tenebrionoidea. Brill, Leiden & Boston. pp. xxiv + 945.