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
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8EA7FDB5-3F41-440E-BAEC-A3E331BA2EC7
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6016163
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C9720625-314D-8A61-FF77-FA9FFEA2FEB3
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Spermophagus caricus Decelle, 1982
status

Treatment

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.