Microhoria truncata ( Pic, 1895 )

Telnov, Dmitry, 2022, Revisional notes on the genus Microhoria Chevrolat, 1877 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Anthicidae) from the Eastern Mediterranean and Turkey, with new descriptions, an annotated catalogue, and a key, Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 22 (2), pp. 195-312 : 294

Microhoria truncata ( Pic, 1895)

Anthicus truncatus Pic, 1895 : cclxxxiv (description).

Anthicus truncatus – Pic 1901b: 179 (nota); Pic 1911a: 78 (checklist).

Anthicus (Stricticomus) truncatus – Winkler 1927: 841 (checklist).

Anthicus (Stenidius) truncatus – Hariri 1968: 206 (checklist, bibliography).

Stricticomus truncatus – Chandler et al. 2008: 447 (new combination, checklist); Telnov 2010: 22, 29 (synonymy, checklist, record – Turkey); Telnov 2020a: 597 (checklist).

Microhoria truncata – Kejval & Chandler 2020: 96 , 120, 123 (new combination, supplementary description, assigned to the M. longiceps species group).

Type material. Not studied.

New material. 4 specimens NME & 1 specimen DTC : N 36°28’55.0” E 36°14’25.6” 97a TÜRKIYE vil. Hatay, Iskenderun, Belen, Belen Geçidi Kiefernforst BF 04.– 11.05.2006, 717 m üNN leg.: SCHNITTER .

This species was redescribed recently ( Kejval & Chandler 2020) and does not require supplementary description.

Distribution. Southern Turkey. Hariri (1968) also mentions “ Syria ”, possibly because the species was originally described from Akbés, a Syrian region at the time of the description, nowadays (as Akbez) a part of Hatay Province of Turkey. Records of this species from Greece refer to M. decolorata (Pic, 1897) , originally described as a variety of M. truncata , raised to species level by Kejval & Chandler (2020).

Chorotype. E­Mediterranean (3.03 EME), restricted to the eastern part of it.