Chorological Categories and Faunistic Records of Dung Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Scarabaeidae) from the Sundiken Mountains, Turkey

ŞENYÜZ Y., Dindar K., ÇALIŞKAN H., ŞİRİN D. Ü.

PAKISTAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY, vol.48, no.1, pp.137-150, 2016 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 48 Issue: 1
  • Publication Date: 2016
  • Journal Name: PAKISTAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.137-150
  • Eskisehir Osmangazi University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

We provide faunistic information about the dung beetles of the Sundiken Mountains in Eskisehir Province, a formerluy unsurveyed region, in order to alleviate the lack of enough distributional information on Turkey Scarabaeidae dung beetle species. A total of 38 species have been collected, including five new records for the province, two new records for the Internal Anatolian Region, and one new record for the Asian part of Turkey (Nimbus contaminatus). The obtained inventory shows that the collected species belong to 11 different chorological categories, suggesting that this region could harbour a high variety of species with different origins and climatic adaptations.