2003•Revue suisse de zoologieOpen access

Un nuovo Caulomorphus Faust, 1886 d'Anatolia (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Molytinae)

Giuseppe Osella, C. Di Marco, A M Zuppa

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A new Caulomorphus Faust, 1886 from Anatolia (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Molytinae).-Caulomorphus hìttita sp.n. (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Molytinae) related to the "lederi" Chevrolat group (sensu Osella), was collected in the mountains of N-E Anatolia (Tunceli district), probably in litter of meso-hygrophil forests.The species is easily distinguishable by interstriae shape, lengthened protibiae and male foveolate urosternite 5 (figs 1, 2).An identification key to all species of the genus and new faunistic data about some other Caulomorphus species are added.

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Key concepts: Curculionidae, Biology, Sensu, Identification key, Taxonomic key, Key (lock), Genus, Plant litter