Faunistic contributions of the subfamily Lixinae Schoenherr (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from Iranian rangelands

Gholami Gavam Abad, Reihaneh; Sadeghi, Seyed Ebrahim; Yarmand, Hamid; Moniri, Vahid Reza; Mohammadpour, Ali; Zarnegar, Ali; Haghshenas, Ali Reza; Zargaran, Mohammad Reza; Piruzi, Fatemeh; Salahi Ardakani, Abbas; Cook, Stephen P.

Faunistic contributions of the subfamily Lixinae Schoenherr (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from Iranian rangelands

Authors

Reihaneh Gholami Gavam Abad ¹

Seyed Ebrahim Sadeghi ¹

Hamid Yarmand ¹

Vahid Reza Moniri ¹

Ali Mohammadpour ²

Ali Zarnegar ³

Ali Reza Haghshenas ⁴

Mohammad Reza Zargaran ⁵

Fatemeh Piruzi ⁶

Abbas Salahi Ardakani ⁷

Stephen P. Cook ⁸

¹ Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands of Iran, Agricultural Research, Education and Exiension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, P.O. Box 13185-116, Iran

² Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center of Qom Province, Qom, Iran

³ Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center of Qazvin Province,Qazvin, Iran

⁴ Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center of Isfahan Province,Iran

⁵ Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center of West Azarbaijan Province, Orumiyeh, Iran

⁶ Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center of Lorestan Province, Iran

⁷ Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Yasuj, Iran

⁸ Department of Plant, Soil and Entomological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, USA

Abstract

From 2009 to 2012, 16 species of Curculionidae (Coleoptera) from the subfamily Lixinae were collected on 17 species of food plants in Iranian rangelands. Identified species belong to seven genera in the tribes Lixini and Cleonini. The host plants from which they were collected were in the families Asteraceae, Fabaceae, Apiaceae, Campanulaceae, Brassicaceae and Zygophyllaceae. Of the 16 species that we captured, two (Lixus subfarinosus Desbrochers, 1893 and Larinus remissus Faust, 1889) represent the first records from Iran. These new data also extend the known ranges of several species (Larinus fucatus Faust, 1894, Larinus grisescens Gyllenhal, 1835, Microlarinus rhinocylloides Hochhuth, 1847 and Bangasternus planifrons (Brulle, 1832) in Iran. The distribution of beetles and their associated host plants are presented and ecological notes on each species are provided.

Graphical Abstract

Faunistic contributions of the subfamily Lixinae Schoenherr (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from Iranian rangelands

Keywords

weevils

Lixini

Cleonini

distribution

new record

Iran

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