Dichorrhinus Desbrochers 1875
Creators: name: Germann, Christoph
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Dichorrhinus

description: Diagnosis: key to the species of Dichorrhinus Desbrochers, 1875
1. Elytra with shorter and adherent hairs. Scales on elytra elongate drop-shaped, green or brown to copper metallic, femora unarmed. Libya (Type locality: Cirene) .......................... freyi F. Solari, 1940
– Elytra with longer and semi-raised hairs. Scales on elytra more circular, green to greenish-bluish metallic.................................................................................................................................................2
2. Head stout, rostrum very short. Eyes smaller, antennae and legs reddish brown and short, femora unarmed (Fig. 1E, J). Aedeagus short, conical, obtuse-angled and pointed at tip (Fig. 2R, S). Syria, Lebanon (Type locality: Djebel Baalbeck) .................................. pseudoscythropus Desbrochers, 1875
– Rostrum longer. Eyes bigger and/or more bulged. Antennae and legs longer, at least femora darkened, and mostly at least metafemora toothed (remark: no teeth were found on femora of D. alziari sp. nov.; in D. geiseri sp. nov. there were always teeth varying from small and sharp to well pronounced and strong; in D. creticus and D. korbi there were all transitions from untoothed to small and sharp, toothed to strongly toothed)......................................................................................3
3. Antennae reddish brown, eyes big, semi-circular, protruding (Fig. 1B, G). Apex of aedeagus with very long spine (Fig. 2P, Q). Greece: Crete Island (= type locality) ......................... creticus (Faust, 1889)
– Antennae darkened, eyes otherwise, aedeagus different.......................................................................4
4. Eyes big, less than semi-circular, protruding, head as Fig. 1H. Aedeagus laterally constricted before apex. Apex with short and rounded (blunt) spine (Fig. 2 A-F). Western Turkey, Greece: Samos Island (= type locality) .................................................................................... geiseri sp. nov.
– Eyes smaller and strongly protruding (almost or distinctly semi-circular). Tip of aedeagus different (Fig. 2 G-O)...........................................................................................................................................5
5. Eyes protruding, distinctly semi-circular, slightly asymmetrically curved (Fig. 1D, I). Aedeagus broader, laterally slightly rounded, apex acute-angled and pointed (Fig. 2 K-O). Turkey (Type locality: Amasia) .................................................................................................. korbi Schilsky, 1911
– Eyes protruding, less than semi-circular, symmetrically curved (Fig. 1A, F). Aedeagus slender, parallel-sided to concave, apex obtuse-angled and pointed (Fig. 2 G-J). Cyprus (Type locality: Troodos Mts) ................................................................................................................... alziari sp. nov.
Further records
The seasonally early-appearing species of Dichorrhinus are rarely collected and published data is scarce. Therefore, I add the following records, registered during examinations for the present study:
description: Published as part of Germann, Christoph, 2013, A review of Dichorrhinus Desbrochers, 1875 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) with two new species from Greece and Turkey, and from Cyprus, pp. 1-13 in European Journal of Taxonomy 46 (46) on page 9, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2013.46, http://zenodo.org/record/3814326