Nicrophorus vespilloides Herbst 1783

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 et...

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Main Authors: Çiftçi, Derya, Růžička, Jan, Hasbenli, Abdullah, Şahin, Ülfet
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Published: Zenodo 2018
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6486142
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Summary: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. Published as part of Çiftçi, Derya, Růžička, Jan, Hasbenli, Abdullah & Şahin, Ülfet, 2018, The large carrion beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae) of Turkey: a review with a new species record, pp. 555-591 in Zootaxa 4441 (3) on page 572, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4441.3.10, http://zenodo.org/record/1301572