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Silpha tristis Illiger 1798

Description

Silpha tristis Illiger, 1798

(Figs 17, 45)

Material examined. Turkey: Erzurum: 1 spec., Aşkale, Kükürtlü village, 39°51'21.98"N / 40°35'30.96"E, 1940 m, 25.VI.2011, D. Çiftçi & A. Hasbenli leg. (MAZMGU); Bitlis: 1 female; Tatvan env., Nemrut Dağı, Güroymak, ca. 38°36'N 042°02'E, 1600 m, 14.V.2005, K. Orszulik leg. (KORC); Kars: 1 male, Susuz env., Doyumlu, 40.8390°N / 033.0321°E, 1400 m, 4.–7.V.2011, S. Murzin leg. (JRUC).

Distribution in Turkey. Artvin (Háva et al. 1998); İzmir (Tezcan and Háva 2001; Tezcan et al. 2010).

Remarks. A widely distributed European species, also known from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Iran and Turkey (Růžička 2015). In central Europe, it prefers wet open habitats (Růžička 1994). In Turkey, recorded only from a few scattered records (Fig. 45). Here reported for the first time from Bitlis, Çankırı and Erzurum Provinces.

Notes

Published as part of Çiftçi, Derya, Růžička, Jan, Hasbenli, Abdullah & Şahin, Ülfet, 2018, The large carrion beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae) of Turkey: a review with a new species record, pp. 555-591 in Zootaxa 4441 (3) on page 582, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4441.3.10, http://zenodo.org/record/1301572

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
JRUC , KORC
Event date
2005-05-14 , 2011-05-04 , 2011-06-25
Verbatim event date
2005-05-14 , 2011-05-04/07 , 2011-06-25
Scientific name authorship
Illiger
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Silphidae
Genus
Silpha
Species
tristis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Silpha tristis Illiger, 1798 sec. Çiftçi, Růžička, Hasbenli & Şahin, 2018

References

  • Illiger, J. K. w. (1798) Verzeichniss der Kafer Preussens. Entworfen von Johann Gottlieb Kugelann, Apotheker in Osterode. Mit einer Vorrede des Professors und Pagenhofmeisters Hellwig in Braunschweig, und dem angehangen Versuche einer naturlischen Ordnungs- und Gattungs-Folge der Insecten. J. J. Gebauer, Halle, xlii + 510 + [1] pp.
  • Hava, J., Ruzicka, J. & Schneider, J. (1998) Faunistic records of Silphidae (Coleoptera) from Turkey. Klapalekiana, 34, 173 - 181.
  • Tezcan, S. & Hava, J. (2001) Notes on the pitfall trapcollected carrion beetles (Coleoptera, Silphidae) in ecological cherry orchards in Izmir and Manisa Provinces of Turkey. Ege Universitesi Ziraat Fakultesi Dergisi, 38 (1), 33 - 38.
  • Tezcan, S., Tezcan, F. & Gulpercin, N. (2010) 4000 Insect Species from Izmir, Turkey. Ege Universitesi Izmir Arastirma ve Uygulama Merkezi, Izmir, 84 pp. [in Turkish]
  • Ruzicka, J. (1994) Seasonal activity and habitat associations of Silphidae and Leiodidae: Cholevinae (Coleoptera) in central Bohemia. Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae, 58, 67 - 78.