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Coleoptera (Insecta) from Ashgabat City and Köýtendag Nature Reserve, with nine first records for Turkmenistan


Borislav Guéorguiev https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8532-0657; Ottó Merkl https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3301-273X; Michael Schülke; Hans Fery; Valentin Szénási; David Král; Zbyněk Kejval; Tamás Németh; Dezső Szalóki

19 October 2018 · volume 29 · [issue 1] · pp. 9–20 · PDF [full text]

Abstract: A list of 60 species group taxa of 15 families of the order Coleoptera collected at Ashgabat City and in Lebap Province (Turkmenistan) is presented. Nine species are reported for the first time for the country: Bembidion aeneum Germar, 1823, Chlaenius extensus Mannerheim, 1825, Gyrinus distinctus Aubé, 1838, Bisnius piochardi (Fauvel, 1875), Gabrius hissaricus Schillhammer, 2003, Quedius novus Eppelsheim, 1892, Thinodromus behnei Gildenkov, 2000, Trichophya pilicornis (Gyllenhal, 1810) and Galeruca jucunda (Faldermann, 1836).

Keywords: Coleoptera, Turkmenistan, new records, first records

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Guéorguiev B., Merkl O., Schülke M., Fery H., Szénási V., Král D., Kejval Z., Németh T., Szalóki D. 2018 Coleoptera (Insecta) from Ashgabat City and Köýtendag Nature Reserve, with nine first records for Turkmenistan. Historia naturalis bulgarica 29: 9–20.

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