Ropalopus Mulsant, 1839

Cebeci, Hüseyin, Özdikmen, Hüseyin & Turgut, Semra, 2011, Callidiine species in Turkey with zoogeographical remarks and some interesting and rare records (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae), Journal of Natural History 45 (7 - 8), pp. 475-483 : 476

Ropalopus Mulsant, 1839

In this genus, eight species belong to the nominotypical subgenus. R. clavipes (Fabricius, 1775) , R. ledereri (Fairmaire, 1866) (the nominotypical subspecies and R. ledereri wittmeri Demelt, 1970 ), R. lederi (Ganglbauer, 1882) and R. macropus (Germar, 1824) have been reported by different authors from various localities in Turkey as cited in Özdikmen 2007, 2008. R. femoratus (Linnaeus, 1758) has been reported only by Althoff and Danilevsky (1997) from European Turkey. R. sculpturatus Pic, 1931 has been reported only twice, from the type locality, Tokat province in central northern Anatolia, by Pic (1931) and also from Erzurum province in NE Anatolia by Sama (1992). R. hanae Sama and Rejzek, 2002 has only been known from the type locality in Turkey. R. insubricus (Germar, 1824) , which was described from Italy, has been reported in Turkey until now only by Bodemeyer (1906), from İstanbul province in the north-west. With specimens in the present text, Bodemeyer’s record is confirmed after 104 years. Thus, presence of the species in Turkey has become certain.

Zoogeographically, R. clavipes has Sibero-European, R. femoratus has European, R. hanae has Anatolian, R. insubricus has S-European, R. ledereri has E-Mediterranean (Palaestino-Taurian), R. lederi has Turanian (Ponto-Caspian), R. macropus has E-European and R. sculpturatus has Anatolian chorotype.