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Issue: Vol. 59 No. 1: 16 Dec. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-12-16
DOI: 10.12976/jib/2024.59.1.1
Page range: 1-10
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Morphological studies of endemic vineyard pest weevil (Megamecus shevketi Marshall & Lodos 1979) and new record of Megamecus bidentatus (Gebler, 1829) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Turkey

Biodiversity Application & Research Center, Atatürk University, Erzurum, Turkey
Iğdır University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Plant Protection, 76100, Iğdır, Turkey
Atatürk University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Plant Protection, 25240, Erzurum
Tanymecini Megamecus morphology vineyard pest new record eastern Turkey.

Abstract

A species, Megamegus shevketi Marshall & Lodos 1979, is an endemic agricultural pest in western Turkey. Series of specimens recently collected at vineyards (Vitis vinifera L.) in the Aegean Region of Turkey allowed conducting detailed morphological studies developing an identification tool for this endemic pest weevil species. Internal morphological characters of terminalia segments and genitalia structure of female are described and illustrated for the first time. Megamecus bidentatus (Gebler, 1829) is firstly recorded for Turkish fauna.

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