Comparison of Leaf Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) Diversity of Turkey and Neighboring Countries with Respect to Species Numbers and Endemicity

According to number of leaf beetle species and subspecies, Turkey is the most diverse country by far among its neighbors with 916 reported taxa. The species numbers of neighboring countries are as follows: Bulgaria 603, Ukraine 582, Greece 507, Romania 495, Iran 479, Russia (only the southern European part included) 441, Azerbaijan 373, Armenia 294, Georgia 273, Syria 254, Cyprus (whole island) 136, Iraq 120 and Moldova 103. As to number of endemic taxa, Iran and Turkey keep ahead with 103 and 88 endemics respectively. The closest country is Greece with 32 endemics and Moldova contains no endemic taxa. However, when we calculate the rate of endemism, Iran is unmatched with an endemism ratio of 21.50%, followed by Iraq and Turkey having 10.00% and 9.61% endemism ratios respectively.

PDF

___

P. Jolivet, E. Petitpierre and T.H. Hasiao, “Biology of Chrysomelidae”. Series entomologicia, 42. Netherlands: Kluver Academic Publishers, 606 pp. 1998.

R.G. Booth, M.L. Cox and R.B. Madge, “IIE guides to insects of importance to man. 3. Coleoptera”. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 384 pp. 1990.

P. Jolivet and K.K.Verma, “Biology of leaf beetles”. UK: Intercept Publishers, 332 pp. 2002.

https://www.iucn.org/content/biodiversityturkey

I. Löbl, and A. Smetana, “Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera: Chrysomeloidea, (Vol 6)”. Stenstrup: Apollo Books, 924 pp, 2010.

A.N. Ekiz, İ. Şen, E.G. Aslan and A. Gök, “Checklist of leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of Turkey, excluding Bruchinae”, Journal of Natural History, 47:33-34, pp. 2213-2287, 2013.

E.G. Aslan, R. Beenen, F. Bayram and B. Aslan, “Chloropterus versicolor (Morawitz) in Turkey: Indigeneity Confirmed (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)”. J. Entomol. Res. Soc., 15(2), pp. 113-116, 2013.

İ. Şen and A. Gök, “A New Record of the Genus Cassida Linnaeus, 1758 from Turkey: Cassida ferruginea Goeze, 1777 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)”. J. Entomol. Res. Soc., 15(1), pp. 69-72, 2013.

B. Aslan, F. Bayram and E.G. Aslan “First Record of the Flea Beetle Psylliodes wrasei Leonardi and Arnold (Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini) in Turkey: A Promising Biological Control Agent for Hoary Cress, Lepidium draba L. (Brassicaceae)”. J. Entomol. Res. Soc., 16(2), pp. 111-115, 2014.

E.G. Aslan and K. Alkan, “The Alticini (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) fauna of Davraz Mountain (Isparta): comments on host plant and altitude preferences with two new records for Turkish fauna”. Turk J Zool 39, pp. 488-493, 2015.

J. Bezděk, “A Review of Palaearctic Scelolyperus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae), with description of S. perreus sp. nov. from Turkey”. Annales Zoologici, 65(1), pp. 21-39, 2015.

B. Gruev and V. Tomov, “A distributional atlas and catalogue of the leaf beetles of Bulgaria (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)”. Zoocartographica Balcanica Vol. 3. Sofia- Moscow, Pensoft, pp.1–350, 2007.

M. Mirzaei, J. Nozari and V.H. Naveh, “Leaf Beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of Tehran, Alborz and Qazvin Provinces, Iran”. Acta Phytopathologica et Entomologica Hungarica, 50(2), pp. 223-228, 2015.

http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#country