Mesites pallidipennis Boheman 1838
Creators: name: Nazarenko, V. Yu.
name: Gontarenko, A. V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Curculionidae
Mesites
Mesites pallidipennis

description: <i>Mesites</i> (s. str.) <i>pallidipennis</i> Boheman, 1838 (fig. 1, <i>c–d</i>, <i>f</i>, <i>i–j</i>, <i>l</i>, <i>n</i>) Boheman, 1838: 1045; Folwaczny, 1973: 129. Material. Odesa Reg.: Kyliia Distr., Vylkove env., E part of Kubanu isl., on <i>Salix</i>, 13.07.1997, 1 Ơ; idem, middle part, floodland forest with <i>Eleagnus</i> and <i>Hippophae</i>, 17.07.1997, 1 Ơ (Ermolenko); Illichivsk env., Sanzhiika, sea coast, 1.02.2001, 1 Ơ (Trach) (SIZK); Tatarbunary Distr., recreation center Raseika, sea coast, 27.06.2003, 1 spec. (N. Gontarenko), 28.06.2003, 1 spec., 3.07.2009, 1 spec. (A. Gontarenko) (cGon); Kyliia Distr., Vylkove env., Kubanu isl., SE coast, adults under bark, larvae in rotten wood of? <i>Populus</i> sp., in the sea and on coast to ~ 20–50 m from water, 28.08.2010, 2 Ơ, 1 &amp;female;; idem, 30.08.2010, 9 Ơ, 7 &amp;female;, 20 larvae (Nazarenko) (SIZK). D i s t r i b u t i o n. Europe: Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Spain, S European Russia, Ukraine; North Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia; Asia: Cyprus, Lebanon, introduced in Turkey (Hlavá&amp;ccaron;, Maughan, 2013). Most western record from Ukraine. Confirmed record from Odesa (fig. 2, triangles). Biology. Develops in old driftwood of willows and poplars, coniferous trees (Lukjanovich, Arnoldi, 1951; Folwaczny, 1973). D i a g n o s i s. This species can be recognized from superficially similar <i>Cossonus</i> (s. str.) <i>linearis</i> (Fabricius, 1775) and <i>C</i>. (<i>Caenocossonus</i>) <i>parallelepipedus</i> (Herbst, 1795) as foregoing species. From <i>M. cunipes</i> it differs by usually bicolor dark body with pale elytra, shining pronotum with indistinct microreticulation, elytral interspaces so wide or wider then striae with dense markedly enlargered on declivity interstrial punctures; aedeagus median lobe almost parallelsided with semicircular apex; narrowly divergent from the base and inner distinctly arcuate arms of sternite VIII in female; feeding in driftwood.
description: Published as part of <i>Nazarenko, V. Yu. &amp; Gontarenko, A. V., 2017, New Records Of Mesites (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) In Ukraine, pp. 75-78 in Vestnik Zoologii 51 (1)</i> on pages 76-78, DOI: 10.1515/vzoo-2017-0012, http://zenodo.org/record/6454070
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