**Taxonomic review of Limothrips Haliday (Thysanoptera: Thripidae): Distribution, wing dimorphism, and an illustrated key to species**

İNCI ŞAHİN NEGİŞ, MARIANNA V. P. SIMÕES, KAMBIZ MINAEI — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +1300

The genus Limothrips Haliday includes six species. Here we provide an overview of the genus Limothrips Haliday, including data on the distribution, associated plants, and pest status of the species. Moreover, the evolution of apterygote (wingless) into pterygote (winged) insects to Limothrips, specifically in the context of cereal ecosystems, is discussed. An illustrated key to Limothrips Haliday species has been provided and formulated to be sex-based. The paper also includes, for the first time, the documented record of apterous Limothrips angulicornis Jablonowski 1894 and presents a detailed re-examination of type specimens alongside newly collected material. This highlights morphological variations and diagnostic character states and provides an updated identification key, thereby contributing significantly to the faunal record and the understanding of species diversity.

**First record of the weevil genus Macrotarrhus Bedel, 1906 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from Turkey with description of a new species**

BORIS A. KOROTYAEV, VLADIMIR I. DOROFEEV, NESLİHAN GÜLTEKİN, LEVENT GÜLTEKİN — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +1300

The weevil genus Macrotarrhus Bedel, 1906 is recorded for the first time from Turkey where a new species Macrotarrhus (Alexiola) araxicola Korotyaev, sp. nov. was found on Atraphaxis tournefortii Jaub. et Spach in the Kars Province. A brief description of the vegetation in the locality is given with data on some other coleopterous herbivores in it. Phytonomus subdepressus Hochhuth, 1851, placed in Macrotarrhus incertae sedis in the Palaearctic catalogue, is transferred to Donus Jekel, 1865, based on examination of its type in SDEI; thus, the new combination is formed: Donus subdepressus (Hochhuth, 1851), comb. nov. The distribution of the most northeastern Macrotarrhus species, M. validirostris (Faust, 1890), is specified. A unique character is found in Ptochus armeniacus Osella, 1977, from north-eastern Turkey: the well-developed ocular lobes; this species was also found to be associated with Atraphaxis tournefortii.

Journal of Insect Biodiversity

Taxonomic review of Limothrips Haliday (Thysanoptera: Thripidae): Distribution, wing dimorphism, and an illustrated key to species

First record of the weevil genus Macrotarrhus Bedel, 1906 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from Turkey with description of a new species

**Taxonomic review of Limothrips Haliday (Thysanoptera: Thripidae): Distribution, wing dimorphism, and an illustrated key to species**

**First record of the weevil genus Macrotarrhus Bedel, 1906 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from Turkey with description of a new species**