Entomologica Fennica


Abstracts of Volume 15 Number 3, 2004

Aslan, I., Özbek, H. & Warchalowski, A. 2004: Five new records, new localities and new host plants for the Turkish flea-beetle fauna (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae). - Entomol. Fennica 15: 138-141.

Altica lencorana Konstantinov, A. longicollis (Allard), Aphthona atrocaerulae (Stephens), A. violaceae (Koch), and Phyllotreta lorestanica Warchalowski are new for the Turkish Alticinae fauna (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). A.. lencorana and P. lorestanica have been known to occur only in type localities Azerbaijan and Iran, respectively. After the type localities Bayburt and Erzurum provinces are the first localities for A. lencorana that of Erzurum is the first locality for P. lorestanica. Additionally, Centaurea glastifolia L. is determined as new host plant for A. lencorana. Euphorbia falcate and E. eriophora were recorded as new host plants of Aphthona atrocaerulea and A. violaceae, respectively. The chorotype and host plants were reported for each species.


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