New data about 'nalassoid' genera from south-eastern Anatolia with description of a new species of Zophohelops (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
Articles > Article · 2014
Authors: Maxim Nabozhenko, Bekir KESKİN
ACTA ENTOMOLOGICA MUSEI NATIONALIS PRAGAE, Journal Indexed in SCI Expanded, International, 2014, vol 54, pp 243-249
Summary
Zophohelops montanatolicus sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Helopini: Cylindrinotina), the first representative of this genus in Turkey, is described from south-eastern Anatolia. It is the second species known in the western part of the disjunct distribution range of the genus Zophohelops Reitter, 1902 (South Armenia and Hakkari Mountains; the eastern part covers Tien Shan Mts. and southern Tajikistan). New data about the distribution of Helopocerodes Reitter, 1922, the subgenus of the genus Nalassus Mulsant, 1854, in south-eastern Anatolia are given.