Larinus

Gültekin, Levent, 2008, Taxonomic review of the stem-inhabiting trehala-constructing Larinus Dejean, 1821 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae): New species, systematics and ecology, Zootaxa 1714, pp. 1-18 : 5

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.274123

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6228582

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1E1287A0-AA5F-B122-058E-FD7570F6F947

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scientific name

Larinus
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Key to species of trehala-constructing Larinus View in CoL

1 - Elytra with whitish-grey round spots or stripes ( Figs. 3, 4 View FIGURES 1 – 4 )........................................................................2

- Elytra without whitish-grey round spots or stripes, grayish-white pubescence randomly scattered and only more condensed on some places ( Figs. 1, 2 View FIGURES 1 – 4 )...............................................................................................3

2 - Elytra with several separated round whitish spots concentrated on intervals 2–5 and 8–10 ( Fig. 4 View FIGURES 1 – 4 ); rostrum about 0.65 times as long as pronotum in male, some up to 0.80 times in female, deeply bisulcate on dorsal surface at basal half, base and apex of more or less equal width; third segment of fore tarsi about 1.10 times, that of hind tarsi 1.05 times as wide as second; aedeagus parallel-sided, very weakly swollen medially, narrowed at apex ( Fig. 5 View FIGURES 5 – 14. 5 – 8 ). Integument shiny black, body size 10.4–15.5 mm. Host plant: Echinops persicus . Syria, Iran, Transcaucasus, Turkmenia, Afghanistan................................. L. nidificans View in CoL Guibourt

- Elytra with stripes on intervals 2–4 ( Fig. 3 View FIGURES 1 – 4 ); male rostrum only slightly differing in length from that of female (about 0.74 times as long as pronotum in male, 0.76 times in female), gradually and weekly narrowed from base to apex, at apex 0.85 times as wide as at base; third segment of fore tarsi 1.40 times, that of hind tarsi 1.30 times as wide as second; aedeagus parallel-sided, gradually but weakly narrowed from base to apex ( Fig. 6 View FIGURES 5 – 14. 5 – 8 ). Integument matte, body size 8.8–12.7 mm. Host plant: Echinops View in CoL sp. (new host record). Distribution: Rhodes, Syria, Iran (new record) Libya, Egypt (new record), Turkey (new record). ................................................................................................................................ L. hedenborgi View in CoL Boheman

3 - Pronotum without white spots, clothed with very short whitish pubescence (Figs, 2, 24); aedeagus in dorsal view strongly swollen medially ( Fig. 7 View FIGURES 5 – 14. 5 – 8 ); tergite VIII ( Fig. 10 View FIGURES 5 – 14. 5 – 8 ) somewhat triangular, sternite VIII ( Fig. 13 View FIGURES 5 – 14. 5 – 8 ) tulip-shaped; spermatheca with very sharp apex ( Fig. 14 View FIGURES 5 – 14. 5 – 8 ). Surface of capsule “trehala” roughly tuberculate ( Fig. 23 View FIGURES 21 – 26 ). Host plants: Echinops sphaerocephalus , E. pungens and Echinops View in CoL sp. (new records). Distribution: Algeria, Libya, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Siberia, Caucasus, Turkey... L. rudicollis View in CoL Petri

- Pronotum with white spots, whitish scales concentrating on pronotal sides to constitute three narrow lines on apical half ( Figs. 1 View FIGURES 1 – 4 , 20 View FIGURES 15 – 20 ); aedeagus in dorsal view not strongly swollen medially ( Fig. 8 View FIGURES 5 – 14. 5 – 8 ); tergite VIII ( Fig. 9 View FIGURES 5 – 14. 5 – 8 ) wide and semicircular, sternite VIII ( Fig. 12 View FIGURES 5 – 14. 5 – 8 ) trapeziform; spermatheca with blunt apex ( Fig. 11 View FIGURES 5 – 14. 5 – 8 ). Surface of capsule “trehala” more or less smooth ( Fig. 18 View FIGURES 15 – 20 ). Host plant Echinops orientalis . Distribution: northeastern Turkey (Aras Valley) ................................................................................. L. capsulatus View in CoL sp. n.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Curculionidae

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