Two New Records of Lixinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from Egypt | ||||
Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences. A, Entomology | ||||
Article 17, Volume 14, Issue 4, December 2021, Page 183-188 PDF (563.41 K) | ||||
Document Type: Original Article | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/eajbsa.2021.209057 | ||||
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Authors | ||||
Fatma A. Abdel-Halim1; Haitham B. M. Badrawy2; Gawhara M.M. Abu El-Hassan![]() | ||||
1Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Zagazig University, Zagazig- Egypt | ||||
2Department of Entomology, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Abbassia, Cairo, Egypt | ||||
Abstract | ||||
The two species Ammocleonus aschabadensis (Faust, 1884) and Lixus (Compsolixus) castellanus Chevrolat, 1866 are recorded for the first time from the Egyptian fauna.The finding of these two species increased the number of the records of the two genera Ammocleonus and Lixus from one to two and from 21 to 22 respectively. Synonymy, diagnoses, specimens examined, photographs and distributions are given for the two recorded species. | ||||
Keywords | ||||
Ammocleonus; Lixus (Compsolixus); new record; distribution; Egypt | ||||
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