Annales Musei historico-naturalis hungarici

Author(s): Delobel, A.
Title: Various species of Spermophagus (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae) in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest
Year: 2011
Volume: 103
Pages: 107-116.

Abstract: Eighteen species of Spermophagus SCHÖNHERR, 1833 collected in Ghana, Iran, South Africa, Syria, Taiwan, and Thailand by several expeditions of Hungarian entomologists and deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum are listed. Spermophagus arcis sp. n. is described from Western Syria; it is assigned to the S. sericeus species-group. One species (S. borowieci ANTON, 1996) is recorded for the first time from Iran, three species (S. caricus DECELLE, 1982, S. confusus BOROWIEC, 1986, S. pubiventris BAUDI, 1886) from Syria, one species (S. ruandanusBOROWIEC, 1991) from SouthAfrica, and three species (S. albosparsus GYLLENHAL, 1833, S. ligatus CHEVROLAT, 1877, S. sinensis PIC, 1918) from Thailand. With 3 figures.
Keywords: Coleoptera, Taiwan, Thailand, new species, Iran, new record, subspecies, Bruchinae, South Africa
Subject: zoology

Journal: Annales historico-naturales Musei nationalis hungarici
Journal abbreviation: Annls hist.-nat. Mus. nat. hung.
ISSN: 0521-4726
Publisher: Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest
Editor(s): Matskási, I. & Merkl, O.