MUNIS ENTOMOLOGY & ZOOLOGY, vol.18, no.1, pp.69-79, 2023 (Peer-Reviewed Journal)
The
paper presents new data on longicorn beetles from North-Eastern Anatolian part
of Turkey. The available specimens were collected from Ağrı,
Ardahan, Erzurum, Iğdır and Kars provinces in 2015, 2020 and mostly 2022. As
a result, a total of thirty species-group taxa (sixteen species and fourteen
subspecies) of fifteen genera belonging to five subfamilies of Cerambycidae
family were determined. Accordingly, Phytoecia
(Musaria) faldermanni Faldermann, 1837 and Phytoecia (Neomusaria) kazaryani Danilevsky, 2020 are determined as the first record for
Turkey. Echinocerus floralis aulicus
(Laicharting, 1784) and Echinocerus floralis armeniacus (Reitter, 1890) are upgraded to the
species level as Echinocerus aulicus
(Laicharting, 1784) stat. nov. and Echinocerus armeniacus (Reitter, 1890) stat. nov.. A total
of four species-group taxa (two species and two subspecies) of three genera are
endemic to Turkey. In addition, many taxa are presented as new records for
researched provinces in the text.