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Ablattaria arenaria

Description

Ablattaria arenaria (Kraatz, 1876)

(Figs 8, 35)

Material examined. Turkey: Ankara: 1 spec., Çankaya, Dikmen valley, 39°52'57.57"N / 32°50'38.12"E, 1000 m, 25.IV.2012, Ü. Şahin leg. (MAZMGU); Adana: 1 male, delta of Ceyhan River, Deveciuşağı, ca. 36°46'N / 035°38'E, 18.–21.IV.1998, Z. Martinová leg. (ZSVC); 1 male, 1 female, delta of Ceyhan River, Karataş, ca. 36°40'N / 035°16'E, 24.–29.IV.1998, Z. Martinová leg. (ZSVC); Balıkesir: 1 male, Bandırma env., Erdek, 40.4196°N / 027.8272°E, 80–130 m, 21.–30.IV.2011, S. Murzin leg. (JRUC); Eskişehir: 1 spec., Tepebaşı, road between Alpagut-Avlamış villages, 39°59'7.69"N / 30°28'39.28"E, 810 m, 16.VI.2012 (MAZMGU); Gaziantep: 1 male, Kömürler, ca. 37°10'N / 036°49'E, 2.V.1995, P. Sekerka leg. (ZSVC); Hatay: 1 female, Uluçınar, ca. 36°24'N / 035°54'E, 24.V.1993, R. Škoda leg. (SMLC); 2 females, Antakya kalesi, ca. 36°12'N / 036°11'E, 1.V.1994, J. Sladký leg. (MTRC); Isparta: 2 males, Eğirdir env., Akpınar, 37.849°N / 030.842°E, 1200 m, 26.IV.–11.V.2012, S. Murzin leg. (JRUC); Şanlıurfa: 1 male, Birecik, ca. 37°02'N 037°59'E, 24.–26.IV.1997, T. Růžička leg. (MTRC); Siirt: 1 spec., Kurtalan, east of Kılıçlı village, 38°0'55.85"N / 41°46'33.82"E, 543 m, 22.III.2015, D. Çiftçi leg. (MAZMGU); Siirt, Campus of Siirt University, 37°58'42"N / 41°50'45"E, 587 m, 10.III.2016, D. Çiftçi leg. (MAZMGU).

Distribution in Turkey. Denizli, Antalya, Nevşehir, Balıkesir, Mersin, Adana, Hatay, Bilecik, Bolu, Burdur, Adana, Kahramanmaraş, Gaziantep, Urfa (Háva et al. 1998); Kocaeli, Niğde, Mersin (Açar 2008); Bursa, Sakarya, Balıkesir, Bilecik, İzmir, Denizli, Isparta, Antalya, Ankara, Konya, Mersin, Nevşehir, Yozgat, Amasya, Samsun, Tokat, Adana, Mersin, Hatay, Şanlıurfa, Mardin, Artvin (Qubaiová et al. 2015); Adana (Şekeroğlu and Çölkesen 1989).

Remarks. Species known from Crete, Rhodos and Cyprus to Israel, Jordan and south-west of Iran (Qubaiová et al. 2015; Růžička 2015). In Turkey, widely distributed, but without known records in the Eastern Anatolia Region (Fig. 35). Here we report the first records from Eskişehir and Siirt 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 574, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4441.3.10, http://zenodo.org/record/1301572

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