THE NEW GENUS TAUROHELOPS KESKIN AND NABOZHENKO (COLEOPTERA: TENEBRIONIDAE) FROM ANATOLIA, TURKEY

WOS: 000370895200009The new tenebrionid genus Taurohelops Keskin and Nabozhenko, new genus (tribe Helopini), including two species from Central Taurus Mountains, Turkey, is described. The new genus belongs to the Cylindrinotus genus-group but differs from other genera of the tribe Helopini by structures of the male tibiae, abdominal ventrites 3-5, male aedeagus, and presence of coeloconic sensilla on the pronotum. One new combination is established: Taurohelops incultus (Allard, 1877), new combination (from Odocnemis Allard). One new species, Taurohelops triplehorni Keskin and Nabozhenko, new species, is described. A lectotype for Helops lordiscelis Reitter, 1900 is designated. Data on distribution, bionomics and morphology of the two species of Taurohelops are given.Turkish Scientific Research CouncilTurkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Arastirma Kurumu (TUBITAK) [108T467]; Ege UniversityEge University [2009 BIL 005]; Russian Foundation for Basic ResearchRussian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) [15-04-02971]The authors are much obliged to Otto Merkl (HNHM), Stephan M. Blank (DEI), and Igor Shokhin (Institute of Arid Zones RAS, Rostov-on-Don, Russia) for providing the material, to Svetlana Nabozhenko (Institute of Arid Zones RAS, Rostov-on-Don, Russia) and Dr. Nursen Alpagut Keskin and Ahu Uzum (Ege University, Department of Biology) for their help in collecting beetles during expeditions, and to Denis Kasatkin (Rostov Branch of All-Russian Center for Plant Quarantine, Rostov-on-Don, Russia) for preparing the photographs. The material for this study was collected during expeditions that were supported by the Turkish Scientific Research Council (Project No. 108T467) and also by the Ege University (Project No. 2009 BIL 005) and supported partly by a grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research 15-04-02971 (for study of the type material and scanning electron microscopy) to the second author