Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Munis Entomology & Zoology, cilt.17, sa.2, ss.730-792, 2022 (Hakemli Dergi)
A list of endemic 109 species and 14 subspecies of Chrysomeloidea of Turkey,
corresponding to 12.65% of the whole (972 taxa), is reported in this paper. This percentage
is clearly much lower than that of Cerambycoidea of Turkey (approximately 50%). The
Alticinae, Cryptocephalinae, Chrysomelinae and Galerucinae with 44 (36.98%), 23
(18.70%), 19 (15.97%) and 13 (10.57%) endemic species-group taxa, respectively, contribute
with the highest number of endemics. Two genera Cryptocephalus with 16 (13.01%) in the
Cryptocephalinae and Chrysolina with 15 (12.20%) in the Chrysomelinae are strikingly
prevailing, and in the Alticinae those of Longitarsus with 10 (8.13%) and Aeschrocnemis
with 9 (7.32%) species-group taxa are the following ones. On the contrary, Alticinae, the
subfamily with the highest number of Turkish species-group taxa, 355 (36.52%), shows 44
(35.77%) endemics. In addition, Pontic concept with 31 (25.20%) is strikingly prevailing,
and the concepts Armenian with 21 (17.07%), Cappadocian with 20 (16.26%) and Iconian or
Lycaonian with 20 (16.26%) species-group taxa are the following ones, according to the
number of endemic species-group taxa of Turkish chrysomeloids separated by classical
regions. These four concepts together with 73 different species-group taxa gather almost
60% of the total endemic species-group taxa. Moreover, two species, Chrysolina abchasica
Weise and Aphthona bergeali Fritzlar, which were regarded endemic in previous studies,
were removed from the updated endemic species-group list of Turkey.