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New species and records of pollen and sap beetles for Iran (Coleoptera: Kateretidae, Nitidulidae)

Department of Biology and Biotechnologies “C. Darwin”, Sapienza Rome University, Via A. Borelli, 50, I-00161 Rome, Italy
Plant Pest Diagnostics Center, California Department of Food & Agriculture, Sacramento, CA, USA
ul. Wiejska 4B/85, 15-352 Białystok, Poland
Department of Entomology, National Museum, Circusová 1740, CZ -193 00 Praha 9 - Horní Počernice, Czech Republic
Department of Biology and Biotechnologies “C. Darwin”, Sapienza Rome University, Via A. Borelli, 50, I-00161 Rome, Italy
Insect Taxonomy Research Department, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization, Tehran, P.O.Box 19395-1454, Iran
Coleoptera Cucujoidea Meligethinae Thymogethes resurrected species faunistics Palaearctic

Abstract

During recent expeditions in North and Southwest Iran, 10 species of Kateretidae and Nitidulidae (Coleoptera) were found. One species of Kateretidae, Brachyleptus bicoloratus Reitter, 1896, and three nitidulid species, Afrogethes schilskyi (Reitter, 1897), Stachygethes khnzoriani (Kirejtshuk, 1979), and S. nigerrimus (Rosenhauer, 1856) are recorded for the first time for the Iranian fauna (the latter is also a new record for Asia). Thymogethes ahriman (Jelínek, 1981) is herein resurrected to species rank, and two species, Thymogethes kassites sp. nov. and T. khorasanicus sp. nov., are described as new. An updated key to the known Near East and Afghan species of the genus Thymogethes Audisio & Cline, 2009 is also provided. Available and recently collected biological and distributional data, as well as short taxonomic comments, are given for the discussed species.

 

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