New distributional records for sixteen Mordellidae species from the Western Palearctic (Insecta, Coleoptera, Mordellidae)

By

Selnekovič, Dávid
Ruzzier, Enrico

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2019

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

894

Pages

151--170

Subjects

bionomy , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Bulgaria , Cyprus , Distribution , Faunistics , Host plants , Italy , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , Montenegro , Mordellistena , Mordellochroa , Morocco , North Macedonia , Slovakia , Spain

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.894.39584

 

Abstract

A list of 22 new distributional records is presented for 16 Mordellidae species from the Western Palearctic:Variimorda caprai(Franciscolo, 1951) (Montenegro);V. mendaxMéquignon, 1946 (Montenegro);Mordellistena falsoparvulaErmisch, 1956 (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro);M. olympicaErmisch, 1965 (Cyprus, Montenegro);M. kraatziEmery, 1876 (Morocco);M. longicornisMulsant, 1856 (Morocco);M. divesEmery, 1876 (Kazakhstan);M. krujanensisErmisch, 1963 (Montenegro);M. tarsataMulsant, 1856 (Cyprus, North Macedonia);M. michalkiErmisch, 1956 (Kyrgyzstan);M. thuringiacaErmisch, 1963 (Bulgaria, Montenegro, Slovakia, Spain);M. koelleriErmisch, 1956 (Italy, Montenegro);Mordellistenula longipalpisErmisch, 1965 (Montenegro);Mordellochroa milleri(Emery, 1876) (Italy);Dellamora palposaNormand, 1916 (Italy). Information about the distributional range is summarised for each species, and notes on habitat and host plants are also provided.