Spermophagus caricus Decelle, 1982

Ghahari, Hassan & Borowiec, Lech, 2017, A checklist of seed-beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae) from Iran, Zootaxa 4268 (2), pp. 215-237 : 217

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4268.2.3
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6016163
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scientific name	Spermophagus caricus Decelle, 1982
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Distribution in Iran. Tehran ( Borowiec 1985a), Yazd ( Abbaszadeh et al. 2016).

General distribution. Greece (Rhodes), Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey.

Host records. Convolvulus leiocalycinus Boiss. (Convolvulaceae) ( Abbaszadeh 2012; Abbaszadeh et al. 2016).

Comments. Anton (1998) synonymized this taxon with Spermophagus turanicus (Lukjanovitch & Ter- Minassian 1957) while Savitsky (2000) suggested that S. caricus and S. turanicus are independent taxa. Holotype of S. turanicus is a female in bad condition (vestiture destroyed) but Savitsky (2000) noted some other morphological differences thus Anton (2010) in the catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera again treated this taxon as good species.

References

Abbaszadeh, L. (2012) A study on the fauna of the seed beetles (Bruchidae family) on some of the rangeland plants of Iran. M. Sc. thesis, Department of Entomology and Plant Diseases, Tehran University, Tehran, 145 pp.

Abbaszadeh, L., Sadeghi, S. E., Ghajariyeh, H. R., Moniri, V. R., Yarmand, H., Shamszadeh, M., Zarnegar, A., Mohamad Poor, A., Kalanatari, S. A., Golestaneh, S. R., Afrouzian, M., Nikdel, M., Rajabi-Mazhar, N. A., Salahi Ardekani, A. & Delobel, A. (2016) Distribution and New Host Plants of Seed Beetles (Col.: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae) from Iran. Journal of Entomological Society of Iran, 35 (4), 9 - 15.

Anton, K. - W. (1998) Results of the Czechoslovak-Iranian entomological expeditions to Iran, 1970, 1973 and 1977. Coleoptera Bruchidae. Casopis Narodniho Muzea Rada Prirodovedna, 167 (1 - 4), 73 - 90.

Anton, K. - W. (2010) Bruchinae. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Fol. 6. Chrysomeloidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, pp. 347 - 353

Borowiec, L. (1985 a) Notes on the Palaearctic Spermophagus Schoenherr (Coleoptera, Bruchidae, Amblycerinae), with description of two new species. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne, 55, 3 - 24.

Savitsky, M. Yu. (2000) New and little-known species of the seed-beetle genus Spermophagus (Coleoptera, Bruchidae). Entomological Review, 80, 351 - 358.