Nicrophorus vespilloides Herbst, 1783

Çiftçi, Derya, Růžička, Jan, Hasbenli, Abdullah & Şahin, Ülfet, 2018, The large carrion beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae) of Turkey: a review with a new species record, Zootaxa 4441 (3), pp. 555-591 : 572

Nicrophorus vespilloides Herbst, 1783

( Figs 24 , 33 )

Material examined. Turkey: Ardahan: 1 female, 10 km S Posof, Ilgardağı pass, 41°25.9'N / 042°44.5'E, 2540– 2600 m, 5.–7.VII.2004, Jiří Hájek & Jan Růžička leg., steppe and pastures on SW slope, baited pitfall traps (fish meat) with ethylene glycol ( JRUC).

Distribution in Turkey. Adıyaman ( Háva et al. 1998; Sikes & Venables 2013a, b).

Remarks. Widely distributed Holarctic species (Růžička 2015), recently confirmed from Alaska, Yukon and Northwest Territories, but not from the rest of North America ( Sikes et al. 2016). In central Europe, commonly found in forested habitats, most frequent in wet coniferous forests ( Růžička 1994). In Turkey, reported from a single record in Adıyaman Province, belonging to the Eastern Anatolia Region ( Fig. 33 ). Here we report a second record from Eastern Anatolia Region, which is the first record from Ardahan Province.

Figures

FIGURES 21–24. Habitus in dorsal view of (21) Oiceoptoma thoracicum, (22) Nicrophorus sepultor, (23) N. vespillo and (24) N. vespilloides (scales: 5 mm).

FIGURES 33–34. Distribution of (33) Nicrophorus vespilloides and (34) N. vestigator in Turkey.