Search

Anderson, Robert S. (2018): Anthonomus trica Clark (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Anthonomini) New for Colombia and Representing the First Fern Association for the Genus. The Coleopterists Bulletin 72 (4): 758-759, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-72.4.758, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-72.4.758

Anderson, Robert S., Caldara, Roberto, Anzaldo, Salvatore S. (2018): Mecinus linnavuori (Korotyaev) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Mecinini), an Iraqi Weevil Species New to Southwestern North America. The Coleopterists Bulletin 72 (1): 126-128, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-72.1.126, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-72.1.126

The species of the genus Smicronyx sensu lato (Curculionidae, Curculioninae) occurring in Israel are reviewed. A total of seven species is recorded. Two species are newly recorded for the country (S. pauperculus Wollaston, 1864 and S. albosquamosus Wollaston, 1854), and two new species are described: S. jordanicus Haran and S. longitarsis Haran. A key to species, diagnosis of the new species, new biological and distribution data together with line illustrations of some characters, including male genitalia, and colour photographs of the habitus are provided.

Four species of the rare and scarcely known weevil genus Sharpia Tournier (Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Smicronychini) in Israel are recorded; two, S. sabulicola and S. torretassoi, for the first time, in addition to previously recorded S. rubida and S. soluta. The association of S. rubida with Cressa cretica is proved, and the association of S. soluta and S. torretassoi with Convolvulus dorycnium and C. lanatus respectively is recorded for the first time. The status of S. ‘filirostrisʼ is discussed. A key and illustrations for all species are provided.

International audience; The species of the Afrotropical genus Afrosmicronyx Hustache (Curculionidae, Curculioninae, Smicronychini), biocontrol agents of parasitic plants in crops (Striga, Orobanchaceae), are revised. Ten species are recognized, two of them described as new (A. mirei Haran, sp. n. and A. madagascariensis Haran, sp. n.). A key to the species with photographs of the habitus and male genitalia of type specimens is provided.

Friedman, Ariel-Leib-Leonid (2016): Lignyodes enucleator Panzer (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Tychiini) Associated with Fraxinus syriaca Boiss. (Oleaceae) — The First Records from Israel and of Host Plant Use. The Coleopterists Bulletin 70 (4): 821-824, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-70.4.822, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-70.4.822

Sert, Osman, Kabalak, Mahmut (2013): New Genus and Species Record of a Weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae) for the Turkish Fauna. The Coleopterists Bulletin 67 (2): 114-115, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-67.2.114, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-67.2.114

A phylogenetic analysis of all species belonging to the weevil genus Mecinus Germar, 1821 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Mecinini) was carried out. Mecinus are exclusively Palaearctic and feed on Plantaginaceae belonging to the tribes Plantagineae and Antirrhineae. Based on a cladistic analysis of six outgroup and 47 ingroup taxa, and 31 adult morphological and three ecological characters, the monophyly of Mecinus appears strongly supported. In this genus six species groups and one monobasic group were recognized. Many species are morphologically similar to one another and lack phylogenetically useable apomorphies; thus for practical convenience these species, which produce highly polytomic topologies, have been treated as the M. pascuorum and the M. elongatus complexes. However, a large assemblage of spe-cies, characterized by elongate body shape, appears well supported. This includes the M. collaris , M. circulatus , M. hey-denii and M. janthinus groups together with the M. simus group where a reversal to the primitive oval body shape in some species is presumed. Other well supported groups are the M. paratychioides and M. marina groups that appear more re-lated to species of the M. pascuorum complex than to the main clade of elongate species. Optimizing host plant preferenc-es onto the morphological phylogeny indicates that feeding on Plantagineae was the plesiomorphic condition for the genus Mecinus. All species feeding on Antirrhineae, which represent a minority, are included in two well supported groups, the M. heydenii and M. janthinus groups, which however do not share unequivocal morphological synapomorphies. In general there are no strict relationships between groups of weevils and their specific feeding habits, since larvae of closely related species adopt different strategies, such as seed predators, stem borers or gall inducers. Similarly no distinct biogeographic pattern of Mecinus has been observed in light of the phylogeny.

The structure of the female genitalia of seven species from genus Cionus Clairville, 1798 have been examined in this study. The genital spicula, 8 th sternite, coxite, stylus and spermatheca which have systematic importance are illustrated and those structures are discussed at the species level.