S.V. Pushkin, R.A. Al Alahmar. 2016. Faunistic records of thr carrion beetles (SILPHIDAE) from Lebanon...

С.В. Пушкин

Sergey Viktorovich Pushkin, Ranim Ayham Al Alahmar. 2016.
FAUNICTIC RECORDS OF THE CARRION BEETLES (COLEOPTERA: SILPHIDAE) FROM LEBANON (AIN-ZALA AREA).
On-line publication (2016) - urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8944B767-1D09-421A-A511-60F9A001F80D

Sergey Viktorovich Pushkin(1), Ranim Ayham Al Alahmar(2).
1. North Caucasian Federal University, chair of botany, zoology and general biology, 355009, Russia.
2. Universite Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth
Corresponding E-mail: sergey-pushkin-st@yandex.ru

ABSTRACT
The paper presents list 23 species of carrion beetles. We present a modern synonyms and photo collection of species in nature. It is designed for a wide audience of both specialists and entomologist's amateurs.

KEY WORDS: carrion beetles, Silphidae, Lebanon (Ain-Zala area).

INTRODUCTION
Information about occurrence of carrion beetles in Lebanon is scattered in many papers of Portevin [1,2,3,4,5,6]. No paper detailing the distribution of Silphidae in Lebanon has been published till now. Altogether, 355 specimens belonging to 22 species have been collected on more. An annotated list of the records is presented below.

MATERIAL AND METHODS
Material was provided to students and graduate students of the University St. Joseph (Beirut) passing practice in Russia. All localities (see Fig. 1) are numbered in the order (1) from west to east and (2) from north to south. Distributional maps (Fig. 1) present only localities of the material examined in this paper.

Fig. 1. Map: geographical location of the study area (yellow tag)

Fig. 2. Material gathering


List of species

 1. Necrodes littoralis (Linnaeus, 1758)  
 2. Oiceoptoma thoracicum (Linnaeus, 1758)  
 3. Thanatophilus rugosus (Linnaeus, 1758)  
   = Silpha scabra Scopoli, 1763
   = S. grossula Bergstrom, 1778 
   = T. subrugosus Portevin, 1926
   = T. distinctus Portevin, 1926 
   = T. vestitus Kuster, 1851 [8]
 4. Thanatophilus sinuntus (Fabricius, 1775)  
 5. Thanatophilus terminatus (Hummel, 1825) 
   = Silpha terminata Hummel, 1825 
   = S. sibirica Gebler, 1830 
   = S. levaillanti Mulsant, 1855 [Hatch, 1928]
 6. Thanatophilus ferrugatus (Solsky, 1874)  
 7. Silpha obscura Linnaeus, 1758  
 8. Silpha tristis Illiger, 1798 
   = Silpha franzi Schweiger, 1966
 9. Dendroxena quadrimaculata (Scopoli, 1772) 
   = Silpha quadripunctata Schreber, 1759 (non Linnaeus, 1758)
10. Phosphuga atrata (Linnaeus, 1758) 
   = Ph. shakotana Kono, 1929
11. Ablattaria laevigata (Fabricius, 1775) 
   = Silpha gibba Brulle, 1832
12. Ablattaria arenaria (Kraatz, 1876) 
   = A. alleoni Portevin, 1926 
   = A. punctigera Reitter, 1884
13. Nicrophorus germanicus (Linnaeus, 1758) [8] 
   = N. armeniacus Portevin, 1922 
   = N. bipunctatus Kraatz, 1880 
   = N. frontalis Fischer von Waldheim, 1844 
   = N. apicalis Kraatz, 1880 
   = N. bimaculatus Haworth, 1807
14. Nicrophorus humator (Gleditsch, 1767)  
   = N. nigerrimus Kraatz, 1884 
   = N. sulcatus Fischer von Waldheim, 1844 
15. Nicrophorus vespillo (Linnaeus, 1758) [8]  
   = N. bifasciatus Hausmann, 1799 
   = N. cadaverinus Gravenhorst, 1807 
   = N. curvipes Duftschmid, 1825 
   = N. hauseri Hlisnikovsky, 1932 
   = N. vulgaris Fabricius, 1775 
16. Nicrophorus vestigator (Herschel, 1807) [8]  
   = Necrophorus anglicus Stephens, 1829
   = N. bipunctatus Portevin, 1914 
   = N. cadaverinus Mareuse, 1840 
   = N. interruptus Brulle, 1832
17. Nicrophorus antennatus (Reitter, 1884)  
18. Nicrophorus nigricornis (Falderman, 1838)  
   = Necrophorus sepulchralis Heer, 1839
19. Nicrophorus fossor (Erichson, 1837) [8]  
   = Necrophorus interruptus Stephens, 1830 
   = Necrophorus corsicus Laporte, 1832
   = N. gallicus Jacquelin du Val, 1860 
   = N. corsicus Laporte, 1832 
20. Nicrophorus vespilloides (Herbst, 1784) [8]  
   = N. hebes Kirby, 1837 
   = N. mortuorum Fabricius, 1792 
   = N. pygmaeus Kirby, 1837 
   = N. sylvaticus Reitter, 1895 
21. Nicrophorus investigator (Zetterstedt, 1824) [8]  
   = N. baeckmanni Kieseritzky, 1930 
   = N. confossor LeConte, 1854 
   = N. funeror (Reitter, 1884) 
   = N. melsheimeri Kirby, 1837 
   = N. praedator (Reitter, 1887) 
   = N. sibiricus Motschulsky, 1860 
   = N. submaculatus Reitter, 1895

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