Otiorhynchus (Otiorhynchus) aurifer Boheman 1842
Authors/Creators
- 1. " Grigore Antipa " National Museum of Natural History, Kiseleff Road no. 1, 011341 Bucharest, Romania & University of Bucharest, Faculty of Biology, Splaiul Independenței 91 - 95, Bucharest, R- 050095, Romania
- 2. Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Research on the Marine Environment and Marine Terrestrial Atmosphere, Al. I. Cuza University of Iasi, Prof. Dr. Ioan Borcea Marine Biological Station, Nicolae Titulescu str. no. 163, Agigea, Constanţa, Romania & Doctoral School of Biology, Faculty of Biology, " Alexandru Ioan Cuza " University of IaȘi, Carol I Avenue, 20 A, 700505 IaȘi, Romania
- 3. Romanian Academy, Calea Victoriei no. 125, 010071 Bucharest, Romania
- 4. Department of Science, Roma Tre University, Viale G. Marconi 446, 00146 Rome, Italy
Description
Otiorhynchus (Otiorhynchus) aurifer Boheman, 1842
Materials examined. Constanța County: “Dunele Marine de la Agigea” Nature Reserve, 44.0876°N / 28.6422°E, 5.II.2024, under dead logs on the ground, Alexandru-Mihai Pintilioaie & Laura-Elena Topală leg. (1 specimen), AMPC; same place, 7.II.2024, under dead logs on the ground, Alexandru-Mihai Pintilioaie & Laura-Elena Topală leg. Three specimens were preserved in alcohol for further DNA analysis.
Remarks. Species with a Mediterranean distribution (Alonso-Zarazaga et al. 2023), only recently recorded in Romania, in 2022, in a single site close to Constanța harbor (Olariu et al. 2024). At the time of the discovery, the establishment of this species in Romanian fauna was uncertain due to the low number of specimens found in 2022 and 2023 (Olariu et al. 2024); thus, the finding of an additional four hibernating specimens confirms the existence of a stable population around the area of first detection. The non-native status of this taxon remains unclear until genetic analyses will help in framing this population in the respect of those from other parts of Europe (Olariu et al. 2024).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AMPC
- Event date
- 2024-02-05
- Verbatim event date
- 2024-02-05/07
- Scientific name authorship
- Boheman
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Genus
- Otiorhynchus
- Species
- aurifer
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Otiorhynchus (Otiorhynchus) aurifer Boheman, 1842 sec. Drăghici, Pintilioaie, Murariu, Manci & Ruzzier, 2025
References
- Alonso-Zarazaga, M. A., Barrios, H., Borovec, R., Bouchard, P., Caldara, R., Colonnelli, E., Gultekin, L., Hlavac, P., Korotyaev, B., Lyal, C. H. C., Machado, A., Meregalli, M., Pierotti, H., Ren, L., Sanchez-Ruiz, M., Sforzi, A., Silfverberg, H., Skuhrovec, J., Tryzna, M., Velazquez de Castro, A. J. & Yunakov, N. N. (2023) Cooperative Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera Curculionoidea. 2 nd Edition. Monografias electronicas S. E. A. Vol. 14. Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa, Zaragoza, 780 pp.
- Olariu, T. - S., Pintilioaie, A. - M. & Yunakov, N. (2024) Otiorhynchus aurifer Boheman, 1842, O. pseudonothus Apfelbeck, 1897 and Pachyrhinus lethierryi Desbrochers Des Loges, 1875: three new non-native weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae) in Romania. Journal of Insect Biodiversity, 46 (1), 18 - 31. https: // doi. org / 10.12976 / JIB / 2024.46.1.2