Eledonoprius serrifrons ( Reitter, 1890 )

Sivilov, Ognyan & Cvetkovska-Gorgievska, Aleksandra, 2014, Faunistical records of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) from Bulgaria and Republic of Macedonia, ZooNotes 2014 (53), pp. 1-7 : 2-3

Eledonoprius serrifrons ( Reitter, 1890) ( Fig. 1a )

New data: Southwestern Bulgaria, Lebnitsa river valley, west of Lebnitsa village, N41°31'38.01" E23°12'42.07", 160 m a.s.l., 15.VI.2012, 1 ♀ at light in Platanus forest, O. Sivilov & B. Zlatkov leg. ( Fig. 2 ) .

Body length: 3.60 mm.

Distribution: Mediterranean: southern part of Europe ( Spain, Corsica, Italy, Bulgaria); Syria; Caucasus: Azerbaijan, Armenia. Information for all published localities is presented in Table 1 and distributional range on Fig. 3 . As mentioned above, the range of this species is not disjunct and shows the typical characteristics of Turano-European species (corresponds to Turano-European chorotype according to the classification of Vigna Taglianti et al., 1999). The statement of Aliquò et al. (2007) that E. serrifrons has Turanian chorotype is incorrect, because the most of its localities are known from Europe.

Figures

Fig. 1. Habitus [dorsal (left) and ventral (right)] of: Eledonoprius serrifrons ♀ (a); Eledona agricola ♂ (b); Latheticus oryzae ♀ (c); Hymenalia graeca ♀ (d). Scale 1 mm.

Fig. 2. Localities in Bulgaria and Macedonia of: Eledonoprius serrifrons (triangle); Eledona agricola (squares); Latheticus oryzae (circles); Hymenalia graeca (hexagon) (modified Google Earth map).

Fig. 3. Distribution of Eledonoprius serrifrons. The circles refer to reports in the literature and the triangle to the new record (modified Google Maps map).