Two new species and new records of darkling beetles of the tribe Helopini from Turkey and Cyprus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
Nabozhenko Maxim, Keskin Bekir, Papadopoulou Anna
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60(2): 411-417, 2020
Published online: 25th June 2020
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Abstract: Two new species of the tribe Helopini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) are described
from Turkey: Nalassus (Nalassus) becvari sp. nov.
(Elazığ Province) and Hedyphanes (Hedyphanes)
kmenti sp. nov. (Artvin Province). The first species is characterized
by strongly thickened antennomeres 2–8 and differs from all Turkish
Nalassus s. str. Mulsant, 1854 in the ventral aspect of eye, which
bears a weak posterior ventral impression (rather than a distinct groove of
other species). The second species belongs to the species group with asperate
punctation of the prothoracic hypomera and differs from all Hedyphanes
Fischer von Waldheim, 1820 in the presence of suberect pubescence on both sides
of elytral base. Distribution of some Helopini (the Helops genus-group,
subtribe Helopina) from Anatolia and Cyprus is updated with new data.
Hedyphanes mannerheimi Faldermann, 1837 is recorded for Turkey
(Iğdır Province) for the first time. //Helops caeruleus caeruleus //Linnaeus,
1758 from Pervolia is a new record for Cyprus and the occurrence is probably a
result of anthropogenic introduction.
Key words: Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Helopini, new species, new records, taxonomy, anthropogenic introduction, distribution, Cyprus, Turkey, Palaearctic Region