Contributions to Systematics and Biology of Beetles

Contributions to Systematics and Biology of Beetles
Alexander S. Konstantinov
1st edition
404 pages
ISBN-13: 978-9546422330
ISBN-10: 9546422339

This volume is dedicated to Professor Igor Konstantinovich Lopatin in celebration of his 80th birthday. Igor Konstantinovich is a renowned taxonomist, prolific author, innovative biological explorer, and respected teacher who trained hundreds of students and during his professional life was (and still is) an inspiration and a mentor for scores of taxonomists. His tireless enthusiastic work shaped generations of Belarusian zoologists, brought a wide and steady respect of systematics into a local scientific community. But most important, he taught us that collecting and studying beetles, small and big, bright and dull, is a noble thing to do. Contributions assembled in this volume reflect Lopatin's intellectual breadth and diverse scientific interests. Some dwells on Lopatin's interest in biogeography of arid areas of the Palearctic describing zoogeographic connections between desert faunas of Middle Asia, Iran, and Afghanistan, and leaf beetle fauna of the Hermon Mountains in Israel. Other contributions reflect Lopatin's interest in host plant relationships, e.g. discovery of a rare crucifer in Turkey being eaten by an even rarer flea beetle. Many contributions are revisions and keys for identification in nearly all major groups of beetles. Some are checklists, faunistic notes, ecological studies, and many contain descriptions of new taxa in many beetle families. This book will be an indispensable source of information on beetle taxonomy, diversity, biogeography, and host plant relationships. It will be useful for entomologists, ecologists, extension scientists, entomology students, comparative morphologists and evolutionary biologists working across beetle taxa and anybody interested in beetle identification.



Table of Contents

Preface viii
Introduction - Igor Konstantinovich Lopatin

1. Taxonomy and Biology of Chrysomelidae
- Chaetocnema conducta (Motschulsky) and its Kindred Species in the Afrotropical Region, with Description of C. lopatini, a New Species from Central Africa (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Alticinae)
- Leaf Beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of the West and Southwest Facing Slopes in the Israeli Part of the Hermon Mountains
- Notes on the Genus Strumatophyma Baly with the Description of a New Species (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Chrysomelinae)
- Contribution to the Knowledge of the Genus Aphthonoides Jacoby, 1885 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Alticinae)
- A Relict Crucifer, Sisymbrium elatum C. Koch (Cruciferae), and Associated Phytophagous Beetles in Northeastern Turkey, with Redescription of Psylliodes pallidicornis Heikertinger
- The Chrysomelinae of Israel and Adjacent Areas (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
- Leaf Beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of the Bulgarian Mountains
- The Flea Beetle Altica ignita Illiger in North America (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Alticini)
- Contribution to the Knowledge of Chrysolina (Crositops) pedestris (Gebler, 1823) (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae): Preimaginal Stages and Ecology
- First Report on Host Plants and Feeding Habits of the Leaf Beetle Acentroptera pulchella Guérin-Méneville (Chrysomelidae, Hispinae)
- The Electrophoretic Pattern of Esterases in Western Mediterranean Timarcha (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)
- Revision of Panilurus Jacoby (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
- Two New Species of the Genus Hesperella Medvedev from S. E. Asia (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
- Geographical Distribution Details of Species Belonging to the Cryptocephalus hypochaeridis Group in the Carpathian Basin (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae)

2. Taxonomy and Biology of other Coleopterous Insects
- New Sinozolus Species from China (Coleoptera, Carabidae)
- Spatial Distribution of Carabid and Staphylinid Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Staphylinidae) in a Forest Plantation Mosaic in Belarus
- A New Species of Miltapion (Apionidae: Apioninae: Ixapiini) from Namibia
- A New Species of the Dung Beetle Genus Namakwanus (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) from Namibia
- A New Species of Sphenoptera Solier (Coleoptera, Buprestidae) from China
- New Species of Aphanisticus Latreille from India and Indonesia (Coleoptera, Buprestidae)
- 
On the Ophoniscus-complex of the Selenophori Genus-group (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Harpalini)
- Two New Species of the Weevil Genus Polydrusus Germar (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae) from Southern Iran
- On Connections of the Sand Desert Faunas of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of Middle Asia, Iran, and Afghanistan
- A Checklist of Haliplidae, Noteridae, Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae, Hydraenidae, Helophoridae, Georissidae, Hydrochidae, Spercheidae, Hydrophilidae, Elmidae, Dryopidae & Limnichidae (Coleoptera) of Belarusian Fauna
- New Records of Some Species of Diving Water Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) from the Palearctic and Nearctic Regions
- Checklist of Cucujoidea (Coleoptera) of Belarus (Eastern Europe)
- Descriptions of New Taxa of the Palearctic Saprininae (Coleoptera: Histeridae)
- Acmaeodera (Acmaeodera) lopatini sp. n. – New Species of Buprestidae (Coleoptera) from Kyrgyzstan

3. List of taxa described by I. K. Lopatin
4. Bibliography of I. K. Lopatin