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Donus geminus

Description

Donus geminus (Zaslavskij)

Hypera gemina Zaslavskij, 1967

Records. CRI [Zaslavskij 1967: 238–239; Nazarenko 1994b: 50; Yunakov & Nazarenko 2003: 97; Nazarenko 2009: 49; 2014a: 348].

Distribution. Endemic to Crimea (Skuhrovec 2013)

Material examined. Crimea: 1 spec. (KUMN) [CR-10-79]. Dolgorukovskaya Yaila Mt.Range, SW slope of Kol-Bair Mt. under Potentilla sp.montane steppe, N. Yunakov leg., 11.vi.2010; 1 spec. (ZMUSK) Kazantip, V. G. Dolin leg., 17.vi.1972; 1 spec. (ZMUSK) Bilohirsk, Belaja Skala, N.D. Globova leg., 27.v.1966; 1 spec. (ZIN) Yaltinskaya Yaila Mt. Range, pass Kuchuk-Uzenbash-Bogaz, 1 km SE Olmeskhyr Mt., 1300 m, mountain steppes, under stone, N. Yunakov leg., 9.vi.2001; 1 spec. (SIZK) road to Ai-Petri Mt. Range, under stones, V. Yu. Nazarenko leg., 22.iv.2002; 2 spec. (SIZK) mature larvae, road to Ai-Petri Mt., on Psephellus sp., 44°29´43.9˝ N, 34°02´06.8˝ E, V. Yu. Nazarenko leg., 22.iv.2002.

Biology. Mountain slopes, meadows. Adults occur in IV–VI. Oligophagous on Asteraceae: Psephellus declinatus, Centaurea sp. and Jurinea sordida. In laboratory on Centaurea spp. (Nazarenko 2009)

Notes. Morphological characters and biological features suggest that D. geminus is a subspecies of D. bucovinensis.

Notes

Published as part of Yunakov, Nikolai, Nazarenko, Vitalij, Filimonov, Rostislav & Volovnik, Semyon, 2018, A survey of the weevils of Ukraine (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea), pp. 1-494 in Zootaxa 4404 (1) on page 348, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4404.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3766751

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
KUMN , SIZK, V , ZIN , ZMUSK , ZMUSK, V
Event date
1966-05-27 , 1972-06-17 , 2001-06-09 , 2002-04-22 , 2010-06-11
Verbatim event date
1966-05-27 , 1972-06-17 , 2001-06-09 , 2002-04-22 , 2010-06-11
Scientific name authorship
Zaslavskij
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Curculionidae
Genus
Donus
Species
geminus
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Zaslavskij, V. A. (1967) Novye vidy dolgonosikov roda Hypera Germ. (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) iz gornogo Kryma. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 46 (1), 234 - 240. [in Russian]
  • Nazarenko, V. Yu. (1994 b) Novye nakhodki redkogo vida Hypera gemina Zaslavskij, 1967 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) na territorii Ukrainy. Vestnik zoologii, 3, 50. [in Russian]
  • Yunakov, N. N. & Nazarenko, V. Yu. (2003) Novye i maloizvestnye dlia fauny Ukrainy vidy zhukov-dolgonosikov i lozhnoslonikov (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Dryophthoridae, Anthribidae). Vestnik zoologii, 37 (1), 95 - 99.
  • Skuhrovec, J. (2013) Hyperinae. In: Lobl, I & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 8. Brill, Leiden, pp. 423 - 437. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 9789004259164