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Weevil Complexes (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea) Associated with Lepidium crassifolium Waldst. et Kit. and L. coronopifolium Fisch. ex Ledeb. (Brassicaceae) in the Southern Steppe at the Boundary between Europe and Asia

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Material of 11 weevil species collected from two halophilic crucifers of the genus Lepidium—L. crassifolium Waldst. et Kit. and L. coronopifolium Fisch. ex Ledeb.—in Orenburg Province (Southern Urals) at the boundary between Europe and Asia is first reported. Six species have been found on L. crassifolium, and seven, on L. coronopifolium. A new species Bruchela uralensis Korotyaev, sp. n. is described from L. coronopifolium; it is similar and apparently closely related to B. kasparyani Kor. from Transcaucasia, associated with Lepidium vesicarium L. Bruchela orientalis (Strejček, 1982), sp. propria is restored from synonymy with B. kaszabi (Strejček, 1973), and B. tchitensis Egorov, 1996 is placed in synonymy of the former: Bruchela orientalis (Strejček, 1982) = B. tchitensis Egorov, 1996, syn. n.Bruchela parvula (Motsch.) is recorded for the first time for Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Iran. A list of the Palaearctic Lepidium species is provided with which weevils of the genera Ceutorhynchus and Lixus, and the subfamily Baridinae are associated. Three additional Central and Eastern Palaearctic species of Lepidium are recorded as weevil hosts for the first time: L. densiflorum Schrad. with monophagous Ceutorhynchus testatus Faust in southern Siberia and in Mongolia; L. appelianum Al-Shehbaz (= Cardaria pubescens (C.A. Mey.) Jarm.), on which Ceutorhynchus sordidus Faust was found in southern Mongolia, and L. cordatum Willd. ex DC., on which Scaphomorphus vibex (Pallas) was found in southern Tuva.

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  1. Body length was given as 1.7–2.2 mm in Korotyaev (1988) but larger specimens have been examined since then. In addition to Ukraine and southern European Russia (Alonso-Zarazaga et al., 2018), specimens of this species from Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Iran are present in the ZIN collection: Turkmenistan: Iolatan’, 14–18.IV.1927 (F.K. Lukjanovitsh), 1 ♂. Tajikistan: Nurekskoe Reservoir, 20 km upstream Nurek Town, Vakhshskii Mt. Range, on Descurainia sophia, 23.V.1983 (B.A. Korotyaev), 2 ♂. Iran: Tebriz, 6.IV and 6.VI.1914 (Andrievskii), 2 ♂; between Khoshkrud and Bu’in (according to: Aliabadian et al., 2012), 8.V.1904 (N.A. Zarudny), 1 ♂.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We cordially thank G.E. Davidian (the All-Russian Research Institute of Plant Protection, St. Petersburg) for making photographs of the beetles, A.P. Sofronov (V.B. Sochava Institute of Geography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk) for presenting photographs of Lepidium densiflorum, R.V. Filimonov (St. Petersburg) for providing his material of the new species for investigation and donating it to the ZIN collection, B.M. Kataev (ZIN) for help in producing the illustrations, T.L. Korotyaeva (St. Petersburg) for montage of the photographs, and M.Á. Alonso-Zarazaga (Madrid) for valuable corrections of the proof.

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The study by B.A. Korotyaev was performed based on the ZIN collection within the State Program no. АААА-А19-119020690082-8 and was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant no. 19-04-00565 A). The data on the herbivores of Lepidium densiflorum have been obtained in the expeditions of the second author to Buryatia and Zabaikal’skii Territory in the course of implementation of the project funded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant no. 18-05-00557 А).

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Dedyukhin, S.V., Korotyaev, B.A. Weevil Complexes (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea) Associated with Lepidium crassifolium Waldst. et Kit. and L. coronopifolium Fisch. ex Ledeb. (Brassicaceae) in the Southern Steppe at the Boundary between Europe and Asia. Entmol. Rev. 100, 28–44 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873820010042

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