Platytomus pittinoi Minkina & Byk, a new species of Psammodiini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae) from Greece is described and illustrated. Newly described species is compared to the morphologically most similar species Platytomus laevistriatus (Perris, 1870).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Montenegrin fauna of the superfamily Scarabaeoidea is not satisfactorily studied. This is evidenced by the small number of species from this superfamily reported from Montenegro, despite the richness of the country's habitats, especially high-mountain meadows, pastures, lush canyons, riverside, coastal dunes and old forests. Moreover, significant is the greater number of species of scarabaeoid beetles in neighbouring countries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe larva and pupa of the saproxylic Roger, 1857, the weevil species extremely rare in Europe, are described from Poland. It was reared from galleries in dead branches of a fallen spruce . The larval morphology is compared with available larval descriptions of other genera of the supertribe Conoderitae, namely, the Palaearctic , and the Nearctic and .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNew data on the distribution, biology and ecology of the longhorn beetles occurring in southern and eastern regions of Kazakhstan are presented together with a list of 78 species that were collected during two entomological expeditions conducted in May and June 2017. New localities of some rare taxa endemic to this region of Asia, such as (Gebler, 1830), (Gebler, 1841) and Ballion, 1878 are given. Ganglbauer, 1883 is recorded from Kazakhstan for the first time.
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