Karel Schön

This paper follows the first part of the annotated checklist of weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea excepting Scolytinae and Platypodinae; ‘exSP’ below) of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, published by Benedikt et al. in 2010. The introductory chapter presents a new checklist following the current system and nomenclature of Curculionoidea (Alonso-Z...

Corimalia strejceki Schön & Skuhrovec, sp. nov. is described and illustrated from the Caucasus, Russia. The new species is compared with the allopatric C. aliena (Faust, 1890) differing in size, shape of scales, scale patch close to the scutellum, size of mucrones on the meso- and metatibiae, and also shape of the apex of the penis. Controversy ove...

Contrib. Nat. Hist 27: 1–26. The combined results of 4 excursions to the Eastern Aegean Island Samos focusing on Curculionoidea are presented. Altogether, including scarce literature records of little more than 20 species, 153 species of Curculionoidea (111 species of Curculionidae, 30 of Apionidae, 6 of Brachyceridae, 3 of Rhynchitidae, and 1 spec...

Perapion connexum (Schilsky) is recorded for the first time from Hungary and Kyrgyzstan, and new distribution data from Ukraine and Russia are provided. Preliminary placements of this weevil in faunal checklists for Poland and Slovakia are here documented with detailed data. Its occurrence in Austria based on older evidence, is discussed. The neoph...

Digital-Weevil-Determination for Curculionoidea of the West Palaearctic. Rhynchitidae and Attelabidae, including 462 colour photographs, 11 drawings and 51 distribution maps. Within the framework of the 'Digital Weevil Determination' project, a digital and interactive identification key for the difficult-to-classify species of the families Rhynchit...

The first part of the annotated checklist summarizes the present knowledge on the distribution of the superfamily Curculionoidea except for Scolytinae and Platypodinae (below exSP) in the Czech Republic – divided into the historical lands Bohemia and Moravia, and Slovakia. It evaluates the present as well as historical occurrence of each species on...

Corimalia martini (H. Brisout), not previously known from the Canary Islands, is recorded from Fuerteventura at two sites. Characters for distinguishing the species from C. lunlata (Wollaston), the only other species of Corimalia known from the Canaries, are given. Short notes on biology, details of its occurrence, distribution, sexual differences...

Data are presented on the occurrence of 43 species of the family Apionidae and two species of the family Nanophyidae in Turkey based on the material obtained mainly by beating stone-fruit trees in NE Turkey. The identity and information about the three species of Apionidae —Squamapion sp.cf.bifarium (Balfour-Browne),Protapion sp.cf.ruficrus (Germar...