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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Catomus hesperides
(
Reiche, 1861
)
Material.
1♂
,
1♀
(
PCMN
)
,
1♂
,
7♀
(
ZDEU
):
Turkey
,
Mersin Prov.
,
Silifke
, west city exit,
36°22ʹ37.73ʺN
/
33°53ʹ43.14ʺE
,
116 m
,
29.03.2021
(leg.
B. Keskin
,
M. & S. Nabozhenko
)
;
1♂
,
1♀
(
PCMN
)
,
1♂
,
1♀
(
ZDEU
):
Turkey
,
Mersin Prov.
,
Narlıkuyu
,
36°26ʹ18.72ʺN
/
34°06ʹ32.91ʺE
,
44 m
,
30.03.2021
(leg.
B. Keskin
,
M. & S. Nabozhenko
)
;
5♂
,
2♀
(
PCMN
)
,
1♂
,
4♀
(
ZDEU
):
Turkey
,
Kahramanmaraş Prov.
,
Başkonuş Yaylası
,
37°34ʹ12.47ʺN
/
36°34ʹ58.79ʺE
,
1300 m
,
18.04.2021
(leg.
B. Keskin
,
M. & S. Nabozhenko
)
;
48♂
,
30♀
(
PCMN
):
Turkey
,
Adana Prov.
,
Çelemli
,
36°50ʹ10.86ʺN
/
35°40ʹ10.89ʺE
,
180 m
,
3.04.2021
(leg.
B. Keskin
,
M. & S. Nabozhenko
)
;
7♂
,
6♀
(
PCMN
):
Turkey
,
Adıyaman Prov.
,
Nemrut Dağı
,
Karadut
,
37°56ʹ17.65ʺN
/
38°45ʹ55.08ʺE
,
1230 m
,
5 km
lower Eskikahta
,
37°56ʹ35.16ʺN
/
38°40ʹ21.17ʺ E
,
807 m
, 9–
10.04.2021
(leg.
B. Keskin
,
M. & S. Nabozhenko
)
;
2♂
,
2♀
(
ZDEU
):
Turkey
, Hatay
Prov.
,
Samandağ
, above
Kapısuyu
,
36°8ʹ2.14ʺN
/
35°57ʹ7.51ʺE
,
400 m
,
7.04.2021
(leg.
B. Keskin
,
M. & S. Nabozhenko
)
.
Distribution and bionomics.
This very common species is widely distributed from Mediterranean
Turkey
to
Israel
(Nabozhenko 2020). Nemrut Dağ (
Adıyaman
,
Turkey
) is the most eastern known locality of
C. hesperides
. It occurs in natural and agricultural habitats in many landscapes. In 2021 this
Catomus
species
was collected on
Сeratonia siliqua
L. and
Pinus brutia
in
Mersin Province
, on
Cedrus libani
in
Kahramanmaraş Province
, on
Olea europaea
L. in
Adana Province
(
Fig. 7C
), and on
Quercus branti
in
Adıyaman Province
. We registered
Xanthoria
sp.
as one of the host lichens. The host lichen of the genus
Xanthoria
was registered for
C. hesperides
on
Quercus infectoria
in
Cyprus
by colleagues from the University of
Cyprus
, Konstantinos Ntatsopoulos, and Loudmila Jelinscaia Lagou (personal communication,
20 May 2021
).
Catomus hesperides
is the second species of
Helopini
after
Nalassus faldermanni
(
Faldermann, 1837
)
, which feeds on toxic
Xanthoria
sp.
lichens.