Contribution to the knowledge of the genus Ceratanisus Gemminger, 1870 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) with description of a new species from Turkey

Abstract

A new tenebrionid species Ceratanisus diyarbakiricus sp. n. (Pimeliinae: Ceratanisini) is described from southeastern Anatolia. This is the most eastern representative of the mucoreus species-group. The species is similar to C. mucoreus (Waltl, 1838) from the Aegean region and C. purcharti Nabozhenko et al., 2016 from Taurus mountains. New distributional data are given for C. funebris (Reitter, 1898) and C. mucoreus.

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Keywords:

• Ceratanisini
• Anatolia
• new records

Acknowledgements

The authors are much obliged to Denis Kasatkin (Rostov Branch of All-Russian Center for Plant Quarantine, Rostov-on-Don, Russia) for the preparation of the photograph of Ceratanisus diyarbakiricus, Ivan Chigray (ZIN) for the preparation of other photographs and provided material, Bekir Keskin for information about material deposited in ZDEU, Warren Steiner (Smithsonian Institution, Department of Entomology, Washington, DC, USA) for the linguistic review and two reviewers for valuable comments and corrections.

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Funding

The study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Grant 18-04-00243-A), by the basic research project Precaspian Institute of Biological Resources of the Daghestan Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, registration number No. AAAA-A17-117081640018-5 and the Program of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences: “Biodiversity of natural systems. Biological resources of Russia: state assessment and fundamental bases of monitoring”.