Mesites pallidipennis Boheman 1838
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Description
Boheman, 1838: 1045; Folwaczny, 1973: 129.
Material. Odesa Reg.: Kyliia Distr., Vylkove env., E part of Kubanu isl., on Salix, 13.07.1997, 1 Ơ; idem, middle part, floodland forest with Eleagnus and Hippophae, 17.07.1997, 1 Ơ (Ermolenko); Illichivsk env., Sanzhiika, sea coast, 1.02.2001, 1 Ơ (Trach) (SIZK); Tatarbunary Distr., recreation center Raseika, sea coast, 27.06.2003, 1 spec. (N. Gontarenko), 28.06.2003, 1 spec., 3.07.2009, 1 spec. (A. Gontarenko) (cGon); Kyliia Distr., Vylkove env., Kubanu isl., SE coast, adults under bark, larvae in rotten wood of? Populus sp., in the sea and on coast to ~ 20–50 m from water, 28.08.2010, 2 Ơ, 1 ♀; idem, 30.08.2010, 9 Ơ, 7 ♀, 20 larvae (Nazarenko) (SIZK).
D i s t r i b u t i o n. Europe: Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Spain, S European Russia, Ukraine; North Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia; Asia: Cyprus, Lebanon, introduced in Turkey (Hlaváč, Maughan, 2013). Most western record from Ukraine. Confirmed record from Odesa (fig. 2, triangles).
Biology. Develops in old driftwood of willows and poplars, coniferous trees (Lukjanovich, Arnoldi, 1951; Folwaczny, 1973).
D i a g n o s i s. This species can be recognized from superficially similar Cossonus (s. str.) linearis (Fabricius, 1775) and C. (Caenocossonus) parallelepipedus (Herbst, 1795) as foregoing species. From M. cunipes it differs by usually bicolor dark body with pale elytra, shining pronotum with indistinct microreticulation, elytral interspaces so wide or wider then striae with dense markedly enlargered on declivity interstrial punctures; aedeagus median lobe almost parallelsided with semicircular apex; narrowly divergent from the base and inner distinctly arcuate arms of sternite VIII in female; feeding in driftwood.
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- Cites
- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.6454072 (DOI)
- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.6454076 (DOI)
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.1515/vzoo-2017-0012 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/6454070 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFC2FFB504765211FFE0D039FF8FFF8C (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- SIZK
- Event date
- 1997-07-13
- Verbatim event date
- 1997-07-13/2010-08-30
- Scientific name authorship
- Boheman
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Curculionidae
- Genus
- Mesites
- Species
- pallidipennis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mesites pallidipennis Boheman, 1838 sec. Nazarenko & Gontarenko, 2017
References
- Boheman, C. H. 1838. [new taxa]. In: Schoenherr, C. J. Genera et species Curculionidum, cum synonymia hujus familiae. Species novae aut hactenus minus cognitae, descriptionibus a Dom. Leonardo Gyllenhal, C. H. Boheman, et entomoiogis aliis illustratae. Tomus quartus. Pars secunda. Roret, Flescher, Parisiis, Lipsiae, 601 - 1121 [1122 - 1124 (Corrigenda)].
- Folwaczny, B. 1973. Bestimmungstabelle der palaarktischen Cossoninae (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) - ohne die nur in China und Japan vorkommenden Gattungen, nebst Angaben zur Verbreitung. Entomologische Blatter, 69 (2), 65 - 180.
- Hlavac, P., Maughan, N. 2013. Subfamily Cossoninae. In: Lobl, I., Smetana, A., eds. Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 8. Brill, Leiden, 219.