A NEW SPECIES OF CORTICEUS PILLER & MITTERPACHER FROM TURKEY, WITH AN UPDATED KEY TO TURKISH SPECIES BELONGING TO THIS GENUS (COLEOPTERA: TENEBRIONIDAE)
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Date
2019
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Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Museum & Inst Zoology Pas-Polish Acad Sciences
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info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
Abstract
A new darkling beetle species, Corticeus turcicus F. Soldati, sp. nov., is described from six localities in Turkey. The only related species in Europe and the whole Mediterranean basin seems to be C. unicolor Piller & Mitterpacher, 1783 from which it differs by the smaller body size, yellowish coloration, different with ratio between pronotum and elytra and aedeagal morphology. An updated identification key to the currently known Corticeus species of Turkey is proposed and all species are illustrated. The types of Corticeus fusciventris Reitter, 1884 and C. rufobasalis (Pic, 1917) were studied and a new synonymy is established: C. fasciatus (Fabricius, 1790) = C. rufobasalis (Pic, 1917), syn. nov.
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Keywords
Darkling Beetles, Hypophlaeini, hollow Quercus, window trapping, Asia Minor, taxonomy, identification
Journal or Series
Annales Zoologici
WoS Q Value
Q3
Scopus Q Value
Q3
Volume
69
Issue
1
