Published June 25, 2020 | Version v1
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Helops glabriventris Reitter 1885

  • 1. 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; e-mail: nalassus @ mail. ru & Dagestan State University, M. Gadzhiev str., 43 a, Makhachkala, Republic of Dagestan 367000 Russia
  • 2. Ege University, Bornova-Izmir 35100 Turkey; e-mail: bekir. keskin. phd @ gmail. com
  • 3. University of Cyprus, 1678 Nicosia P. O. Box 20537 Cyprus; e-mail: papadopoulou. g. anna @ ucy. ac. cy

Description

Helops glabriventris Reitter, 1885

Material examined. 1 ♀ (LPCB):‘ Cyprus, 5 km NE Limassol / Germasogeia Dam env., 26.III–2.IV.2006 / lgt. P. Jelinek’.

Comments. This species is known from Greece, southwestern Turkey and Cyprus; feeds on lichens on Juniperus excelsa, Cedrus libani, Abies cilicica in Turkey (NΑΒοΖ*üΕΝΚο & KΕඌΚΙΝ 2017) and on Cedrus brevifolia in Cyprus (G*©ΙΜΜ 1991). Environs of the Germasogeia Dam is a highly destructed anthropogenic landscape with forest patches of Pinus brutia nearby. The species was probably collected in pine habitats. The subspecies H. glabriventris jelineki Picka, 1984 was described from Crete (PΙ*öΚΑ 1984).

Notes

Published as part of Nabozhenko, Maxim, Keskin, Bekir & Papadopoulou, Anna, 2020, Two new species and new records of darkling beetles of the tribe Helopini from Turkey and Cyprus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), pp. 411-417 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (2) on page 414, DOI: 10.37520/aemnp.2020.25, http://zenodo.org/record/4489312

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References

  • PICKA J. 1984: Zur Faunistik und Taxonomie der Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) der Insel Kreta. Turkiye Bitki Koruma Dergisi 8: 17 - 31.