Neslihan Gültekin

Igdir Üniversitesi · Department of Plant Protection

Check list of seventy-eight species of jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) belonging to 21 genera of 12 tribes in five subfamilies, recorded from the Turkish part of Aras River valley is presented. Compared with the fauna of adjacent areas of Armenia and Nakhichevan (Azerbaijan), the diversity of jewel beetles is significantly impoverished as r...

Heteroptera species collected from numerous localities in Anatolia, particularly Eastern Anatolia, between 1998 and 2021 are presented. 124 species in 97 genera belonging to following 20 families are recorded: Miridae (32), Nabidae (2), Anthocoridae (1), Tingidae (1), Reduviidae (7), Pentatomidae (33), Scutelleridae (9), Acanthosomatidae (1), Cydni...

Twenty-three observations of leaf beetles and their feeding damage are reported. Masquerade is found in 15 observations. In 12 observations dark colored beetles were making obvious dark colored damage. Light colored beetles of three species were observed making light colored damage. Masquerade in Chrysomelinae is reported here for the first time. I...

Two new species for the Turkish weevil fauna (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Cionini) of the genus Cionus Clairville, 1798 are reported: Cionus anatolicus Gltekin, Kol, and Gltekin, new species is described, and Cionus dodeki Kol and Caldara, 2019 is reported as a new country record for Turkey. Distributional data, remarks on biology and...

The weevil Conorhynchus kindermanni Faust, 1904 (Curculionidae: Lixinae: Cleonini) was detected in close association with Salsola tragus L. (Amaranthaceae) in Ağrı Mountain soutwestern lowland area where sandy desert. The aim of this study is to determine the life cycle of C. kindermanni feeding on S. tragus. The field research was conducted betwee...

The investigation of Campanula L. (Campanulaceae) plants in the eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey revealed three new Mecinini weevil species/host plant associations: Miarus ajugae (Herbst, 1795) with Campanula lactiflora Bieb., Cleopomiarus distinctus (Boheman, 1845) with Campanula alliariiafolia Willd. and Campanula rapunculoides L., and Cleopomi...

The augmented morphological description of the weevil species Acentrus histrio (Schoenherr, 1837) is provided and supplied with photographs of the terminalia and genitalia of both sexes. Female genitalia are described for the first time. Glaucium grandiflorum Boiss. & A. Huett and Glaucium corniculatum (L.) Rudolph (Papaveraceae) are reported as th...

Bu çalışma, Türkiye’nin Doğu Anadolu Bölgesi’nde yer alan Iğdır ilinde ekimi yapılan yonca bitkisi (Medicago sativa L.) zararlılarından Sitona Germar türlerini belirlemek amacıyla 2019 ve 2020 yıllarında yürütülmüştür. Arazi incelemeleri Nisan-Kasım ayları arasında 39 lokasyonda gerçekleştirilmiş, 64 tarladan atrap yardımıyla 6.107 ergin birey topl...

The first detection of one of the most harmful defoliating insects, the ash weevil Stereonychus fraxini (DeGeer, 1775) in Black Sea Region (Trabzon) of Turkey is reported here. Both the genus StereonychusSuffrian, 1854 and the species S. fraxini are new records for the Turkish fauna. A diagnostic morphological update is presented with digital evide...

Weevils of the tribes Cleonini and Tanymecini, Cleonis pigra (Scopoli, 1763), Conorhynchus kindermanni Faust,1904, Bothynoderes affinis (Schrank, 1781), Pachycerus segnis (Germar, 1824), Maximus strabus (Gyllenhal, 1834), Asproparthenis punctiventris (Germar, 1824), A. steveni (Faust, 1892), A. omeri Korotyaev, N. Gültekin & L. Gültekin, 2020, Temn...

The adults of Sitona humeralis Stephens, 1831 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) cause serious damages by feeding on the leaf and shoot parts of the clover plant (Medicago sativa L.), and the larvae on the capillary root and nodocytes. This article was carried out in the clover fields and laboratory in Iğdır province in 2019-2020 in order to determine the...

The leaf-litter weevil diversity in a natural forest refuge fragments among in hazelnut orchards is investigated at eastern Black Sea Region. Ten weevil species Curculio nucum (Linnaeus, 1758), Curculio glandium Marsham, 1802, Acalles caucasicus Reitter, 1891, Anoplus roboris (Suffrian, 1840), Anchonidium caucasicum (Motschulsky, 1845), Plinthus os...

The paper presents new host records for Zeuxia cinerea Meigen, 1826 (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Turkey. New parasitoid host couples are Temnorhinus hololeucus (Pallas, 1781) and Maximus strabus (Gyllenhal, 1834) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) for Z. cinerea. Some additional information about the reared species and hosts are also presented.

This study was conducted to determine alfalfa pest species of Sitona Germar (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) and their ecology in 2018-2019 in I dr Province where alfalfa cultivated in wide range. The field investigations were performed covering in 39 locations, 64 fields using sweeping net and 6107 adults collected, totally. In addition, biological st...

The species-rich genus Astragalus L. (Fabaceae) is an important plant group as forage, erosion control and refuge plants for animals especially arthropods as well as insects. This plant genus is distributed in temperate zone of Northern Hemisphere with over three thousand species and about four hundred species in Turkey where half of them endemic....

A small population rare beetle Chrysochares asiaticus (Pallas, 1771) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) was found at Aras River bank at I dr province, Tuzluca district, 2 km south of Halk la village where corner of Turkey and Armenia border. This finding is a confirmation presence of C. asiaticus in Turkey. The distribution range of beetle is Central A...

Weevils (Curculionidae) captured with light traps from Aras Valley – Iğdır Basin from Eastern Turkey Abstract : The Anatolian weevil diversity investigation is enlarged using light traps at Aras Valley in the most eastern part of Turkey. Totally six weevil species as Acentrus histrio (Schoenherr, 1837), Hypera postica (Gyllenhal, 1813), Hypolixus...

A new species Asproparthenis omeri sp. nov. closely related to A. vexata (Gyllenhal, 1834) is described in the tribe Cleonini (Curculionidae) from the Aras River valley in Northeastern Turkey. The new species is the first representative of the genus Asproparthenis Gozis, 1886 with vestigial hind wings. Digital photographs of diagnostic morphologica...

The tribe Mecysolobini Reitter, 1913, the genus Alcidodes G.A.K. Marshall, 1939 and the species Alcidodes karelinii (Boheman, 1844) are new to fauna of Turkey. The species is redescribed based on diagnostic morphological characters which are presented with their digital images. Genital structures with abdominal terminalia segments are studied and d...

The occurrence of Charagmus variegatus in the East Mediterranean and Turkey is confirmed. Six adult individuals were obtained by sweeping several plants including Polygonum equisetiforme Sm. and Ononix sp. at the eastern Mediterranean coast of Turkey. Morphological characters of C. variegatus are studied, including female terminalia segments and ge...

This is the first report of a very rare weevil Altonomus vernalis (Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1957) 60 years after its description. It is a new record for the Turkish fauna and Cirsium arvense (L.) is a first plant association record. Comparative sexually dimorphic characters, measurements, and digital photographs are presented for the first time.

The weevil Sciaphilus asperatus (Bonsdorff, 1785) is newly recorded for the fauna of Turkey, where it occurs in the Black Sea region. Information on its morphology and distribution and an image of the adult are provided.