Four new species of the genus Ceutorhynchus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from the western Palaearctic
Krátký Jiří
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 65(1): 251-259, 2025
Published online: 18th October 2025
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Abstract: escribed here: Ceutorhynchus armeniacus sp. nov. from Armenia lives on Alyssum
(Brassicaceae), and is most similar to the West Palaearctic C. griseus C.
Brisout de Barneville, 1869 and to C. montanus Colonnelli, 1997 from the
Balkans. Ceutorhynchus crassulicola sp. nov. from the Canary Islands is related
to the Palaearctic C. assimilis and the Central Asian C. confusus A. Schultze,
1903. Ceutorhynchus davidorum sp. nov. from Greece lives on Alyssum, is related
to the West Palaearctic C. griseus and is also somewhat similar to the East
European C. nigritulus A. Schultze, 1897. Ceutorhynchus dobrogeaensis sp. nov.
from Romania lives on Lepidium perfoliatum (Brassicaceae), and is related to the
East European and Central Asian C. difficilis A. Schultze, 1898 and to the
Palaearctic C. assimilis.
Key words: Curculionidae, Conoderinae, Ceutorhynchitae, bionomics, new species, taxonomy, Armenia, Canary Islands, Greece, Romania