Research on three click beetles species from Turkey (Coleoptera: Elateridae)

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KABALAK M., SERT O.

TURKIYE ENTOMOLOJI DERGISI-TURKISH JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY, vol.36, no.4, pp.501-505, 2012 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 36 Issue: 4
  • Publication Date: 2012
  • Journal Name: TURKIYE ENTOMOLOJI DERGISI-TURKISH JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Page Numbers: pp.501-505
  • Keywords: New record, detailed locality records, male genitalia, bursa copulatrix, Turkey, REGION, ESCHSCHOLTZ
  • Hacettepe University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

In this study, specimens of three species of the family Elateridae (Coleoptera) were collected from Antalya, Canakkale, Denizli, Hatay, Kutahya and Rize provinces in 1988, 1991, 1992, 1993, 2008, 2010 and 2011. New records for Turkey and detailed redrawing, description of the male genitalia and its comparison with literature of Ampedus rubellus Gurjeva 1977, detailed locality records for Turkey and a photograph and description of the bursa copulatrix of Melanotus (Spheniscosomus) cuneiformis (Baudi di Selve, 1871), and description, detailed drawing of the male genital morphology and its comparison with closely related species of Agriotes subsulcatus Pic, 1913, are provided.