Two New Species of the Weevil Genus Thamiocolus Thoms. (Coleoptera, Curculionidae: Ceutorhynchini) from Turkey
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wo New Species of the Weevil Genus Thamiocolus Thoms. (Coleoptera, Curculionidae: Ceutorhynchini) from Turkey B. A. Korotyaeva,* and L. Gültekinb b
a Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, 199034 Russia Biodiversity Application & Research Center, Atatürk University, Erzurum, 25240 Turkey *e-mail: [email protected]
Received October 9, 2020; revised October 11, 2020; accepted October 11, 2020
Abstract—New species Th. dieckmanni sp. n. and Thamiocolus hamzai sp. n. are described from southern Turkey, and amended description of Th. ? susannae Dieckmann is provided based on the authors’ collection from Central and Southern Turkey. Material of Thamiocolus virgatus (Gyllenhal, 1837) is reported from Turkey for the first time. Keywords: Thamiocolus, Phlomis, new species, distribution, taxonomy, Turkey DOI: 10.1134/S0013873820050103
Thamiocolus Thomson, 1859 with 43 species known by 2019 (Colonnelli, 2013; Alonso-Zarazaga et al., 2017), the third largest genus of Ceutorhynchini Gistel, 1848 (Korotyaev, 2008), is represented in Turkey by 12 species (Colonnelli, 2013), some of them so far known only from this country. They are associated with plants of the family Lamiaceae, very species-rich in the Mediterranean and Irano-Turanian regions. In this paper we describe two additional species of this genus from Turkey found during our study of the Turkish weevil fauna supported at different times by a Collaborative Linkage Grant of NATO Science Programme and jointly by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK).
eastern Anatolia to Th. anthracinus and considered it a vicariant of Th. calcaratus which is distributed only in northwestern Mediterranean (Isparta Province) and southwestern Central Anatolian (Konya Province) regions. The distribution of Th. susannae in the recent version of the Palaearctic Catalogue (Alonso-Zarazaga et al., 2017) is ambiguous because of the misidentification of Th. anthracinus from Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran by Korotyaev (1997); consequently, the distribution of Th. susannae is apparently restricted to southern regions of Turkey, while Th. anthracinus is distributed, in addition to eastern Turkey, Iran and Syria (Colonnelli, 2005), also in Armenia and Azerbaijan (only in the Araks (= Aras in Turkish) River valley). We have had no opportunity of examination of the Th. susannae holotype and attribute to this species extensive material only partly fitting the original description, including specimens from Mersin Province from which Th. susannae was described.
Since the first revision of Thamiocolus by Dieckmann (1973) Th. susannae Dieckmann, 1982, Th. lodosi Korotyaev, 1995 and Th. comptus Colonnelli, 1997 were described from Mediterranean Turkey (Dieckmann, 1982; Korotyaev, 1995; Colonnelli, 1997), Th. marci Colonnelli, 2005 from the Marmara Region (Colonnelli, 2005), and Th. anthracinus Colonnelli, 2005, from Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia (Colonnelli, 2005). Thamiocolus calcaratus (Schultze, 1901),
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