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Issue: Vol. 5659 No. 2: 3 Jul. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-07-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5659.2.2
Page range: 179-190
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A new species of the genus Neatus J. L. Leconte, 1862 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Tenebrionini) from Türkiye, with new country records and a key to holarctic species

Office National des Forêts; Laboratoire National d’Entomologie Forestière; 2 rue Charles Péguy; F-11500 Quillan; France
Via P. Tola 21; I-09128 Cagliari; Italy
Linköping University; Biology/IFM; S-58183 Linköping; Sweden
Isparta University of Applied Sciences; Faculty of Forestry; T-32200 Isparta; Türkiye
Department of Biology; Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Adıyaman University; T-02040 Adıyaman; Türkiye
Department of Biology; Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Adıyaman University; T-02040 Adıyaman; Türkiye
Coleoptera darkling beetles taxonomy original description geographical distribution identification

Abstract

Neatus turcicus sp. nov. is described from southern Türkiye, in the provinces of Adana, Isparta, Konya and Mersin. In the provinces of Isparta and Mersin the new species was discovered during the Turkish Oak Habitat Project (TOHP), a large-scale study of old oaks in Türkiye. It is compared with all known Neatus species from the Holarctic Region and is closely related to N. noctivagus (Mulsant & Rey, 1853) and N. subaequalis Reitter, 1920. Material of all Neatus species is studied, including topotypical specimens, with analysis of their geographical distribution, and N. noctivagus is a new country record for Greece and Türkiye. A first key to all Neatus species is proposed, including new morphological characters. Photos of aedeagi of all species are also presented for the first time.

 

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How to Cite

Soldati, F., Leo, P., Jansson, N., Avci, M., Coşkun, M. & Kayiş, T. (2025) A new species of the genus Neatus J. L. Leconte, 1862 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Tenebrionini) from Türkiye, with new country records and a key to holarctic species. Zootaxa, 5659 (2), 179–190. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5659.2.2