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A taxonomic review of the
species of the genus Amara Bonelli
(Coleoptera: Carabidae: Pterostichinae) from south-central
Turkey
Sakine Serap Avgın1* and Iskender Emre2
1Osmaniye
Korkut Ata University, Art and Science Faculty, Department
of Biology, Osmaniye, Turkey.
2Çukurova
University, Art and Science Faculty, Department of Biology,
Balcalı, Adana, Turkey.
*Corresponding author. E-mail:
serapavgin@hotmail.com.
Accepted
3 September, 2009 |
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The twelve species and subspecies of the pterostichine genus
Amara Bonelli living in the study area represent
about 22% of the Turkish species of this genus. This study
is based on material collected primarily in the province of
Kahramanmaraş, but also in the surrounding provinces of
Adana, Adıyaman, Gaziantep, Kayseri, and Malatya, situated
in south-central Turkey, in the Taurus Mountains, and mostly
within the Taurus refugium. The taxa are characterized by:
keys; description of structural features; and photographs of
habitus (male and female), and of male genitalia. For each
species, the localities (many of them new), coordinates,
altitudes of collection, its distribution in Turkey, and its
chorotype were also given.
Key
words:
Amara, Pterostichinae, Carabidae, Turkey. |
