Contributions to Systematics and Biology of Beetles. Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Igor Konstantinovich Lopatin

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This book will be an valuable source of information on
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beetle taxonomy, diversity, biogeography, and host plant
relationships. It will be useful for entomologists, Alexey Tishechkin
ecologists, entomology students, comparative morphologists Lyubomir Penev
and evolutionary biologists working across beetle taxa
and anybody interested in beetle identification.
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CONTRIBUTIONS TO SYSTEMATICS AND
BIOLOGY OF BEETLES
Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Igor Konstantinovich Lopatin
Edited by
Alexander Konstantinov, Alexey Tishechkin, Lyubomir Penev
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Contributions to
Systematics and
Biology of Beetles
Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of
Igor Konstantinovich Lopatin
Edited by
Alexander Konstantinov, Alexey Tishechkin, Lyubomir Penev
Sofia-Moscow
2005
CONTRIBUTIONS TO SYSTEMATICS AND BIOLOGY OF BEETLES
Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Igor Konstantinovich Lopatin
Edited by
Alexander Konstantinov
Alexey Tishechkin
Lyubomir Penev
Pensoft Series Faunistica No 43
ISSN 1312-0174
First published 2005
ISBN 954-642-233-9
Cover illustration Chrysochares constricticollis Lopatin, 1963 and design by Marie Metz
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Contents
Preface.................................................................................................................................................viii
Introduction - Igor Konstantinovich Lopatin...............................................................................ix
1. Taxonomy and Biology of Chrysomelidae.................................................................................1
Chaetocnema conducta (Motschulsky) and its Kindred Species in the Afrotropical Region, with
Description of C. lopatini, a New Species from Central Africa (Coleoptera,
Chrysomelidae, Alticinae)
M. Biondi and P. D’Alessandro.............................................................................................................. 3
Leaf Beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of the West and Southwest Facing Slopes in the
Israeli Part of the Hermon Mountains
V. Chikatunov and T. Pavlíček.............................................................................................................17
Notes on the Genus Strumatophyma Baly with the Description of a New Species (Coleoptera,
Chrysomelidae, Chrysomelinae)
M. Daccordi...........................................................................................................................................43
Contribution to the Knowledge of the Genus Aphthonoides Jacoby, 1885 (Coleoptera:
Chrysomelidae: Alticinae)
M. Doeberl.............................................................................................................................................53
A Relict Crucifer, Sisymbrium elatum C. Koch (Cruciferae), and Associated Phytophagous
Beetles in Northeastern Turkey, with Redescription of Psylliodes pallidicornis Heikertinger
V. I. Dorofeyev, B. A. Korotyaev, A. S. Konstantinov, and L. Gültekin..............................................81
The Chrysomelinae of Israel and Adjacent Areas (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
A. L. L. Friedman, I. K. Lopatin, V. I. Chikatunov and H. Ackerman...........................................89
Leaf Beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of the Bulgarian Mountains
B. A. Gruev.........................................................................................................................................111
The Flea Beetle Altica ignita Illiger in North America (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae, Alticini)
L. LeSage and A. Zmudzinska..........................................................................................................125
vi Contributions to Systematics and Biology of Beetles
Contribution to the Knowledge of Chrysolina (Crositops) pedestris (Gebler, 1823) (Coleoptera,
Chrysomelidae): Preimaginal Stages and Ecology
Y. E. Mikhailov ..................................................................................................................................143
First Report on Host Plants and Feeding Habits of the Leaf Beetle Acentroptera pulchella
Guérin-Méneville (Chrysomelidae, Hispinae)
A. Mantovani, N. Magalhães, M. L. Teixeira, G. Leitão, C. L. Staines, and B. Resende...............153
The Electrophoretic Pattern of Esterases in Western Mediterranean Timarcha (Coleoptera,
Chrysomelidae)
E. Petitpierre........................................................................................................................................159
Revision of Panilurus Jacoby (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
K. D. Prathapan and C. A. Viraktamath..........................................................................................167
Two New Species of the Genus Hesperella Medvedev from S. E. Asia (Coleoptera:
Chrysomelidae)
H. Takizawa.......................................................................................................................................179
Geographical Distribution Details of Species Belonging to the Cryptocephalus hypochaeridis
Group in the Carpathian Basin (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae)
K. Vig..................................................................................................................................................185
2. Taxonomy and Biology of other Coleopterous Insects.....................................................197
New Sinozolus Species from China (Coleoptera, Carabidae)
I. A. Belousov and I. I. Kabak............................................................................................................199
Spatial Distribution of Carabid and Staphylinid Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Staphylinidae)
in a Forest Plantation Mosaic in Belarus
A. Derunkov........................................................................................................................................219
A New Species of Miltapion (Apionidae: Apioninae: Ixapiini) from Namibia
A. L. L. Friedman and A. Freidberg..................................................................................................239
A New Species of the Dung Beetle Genus Namakwanus (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) from Namibia
A.V. Frolov.........................................................................................................................................245
A New Species of Sphenoptera Solier (Coleoptera, Buprestidae) from China
M. Yu. Kalashian.................................................................................................................................249
Contents vii
New Species of Aphanisticus Latreille from India and Indonesia (Coleoptera, Buprestidae)
M. Yu. Kalashian.................................................................................................................................253
On the Ophoniscus-complex of the Selenophori Genus-group (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Harpalini)
B. Kataev..............................................................................................................................................261
Two New Species of the Weevil Genus Polydrusus Germar (Coleoptera: Curculionidae:
Entiminae) from Southern Iran
J. E. Meleshko and B. A. Korotyaev ...................................................................................................289
On Connections of the Sand Desert Faunas of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of Middle Asia,
Iran, and Afghanistan
G. S. Medvedev....................................................................................................................................299
A Checklist of Haliplidae, Noteridae, Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae, Hydraenidae, Helophoridae,
Georissidae, Hydrochidae, Spercheidae, Hydrophilidae, Elmidae, Dryopidae &
Limnichidae (Coleoptera) of Belarusian Fauna
S. K. Ryndevich....................................................................................................................................315
New Records of Some Species of Diving Water Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) from the
Palearctic and Nearctic Regions
H. V. Shaverdo....................................................................................................................................327
Checklist of Cucujoidea (Coleoptera) of Belarus (Eastern Europe)
V. A. Tsinkevich.................................................................................................................................333
Descriptions of New Taxa of the Palearctic Saprininae (Coleoptera: Histeridae)
A. K. Tishechkin .................................................................................................................................347
Acmaeodera (Acmaeodera) lopatini sp. n. – New Species of Buprestidae (Coleoptera) from
Kyrgyzstan
M. G. Volkovitsh................................................................................................................................357
3. List of taxa described by I. K. Lopatin...................................................................................365
4. Bibliography of I. K. Lopatin.....................................................................................................375
Preface
The idea to produce a collection of papers in honor of I. K. Lopatin was conceived during a
collecting trip to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in June of 2003. On November 13
of that year Igor Konstantinovich celebrated his 80th birthday. In post Soviet society that is an
achievement by itself, however, the life of Igor Konstantinovich is full of achievements. Lopatin
conducted unprecedented biological explorations in Central Asia, discovered and described
hundreds of new leaf beetle taxa (his favorite group) and made leaf beetle fauna of remote
Middle Asia one of the best known in the World. He authored more than 240 scientific publications
and textbooks on subjects as diverse as zoogeography, zoology of invertebrates, natural history,
taxonomy, ecology, and faunistics. For nearly 50 years Lopatin taught (and still teaches) at
universities, first in Dushanbe (Tadjikistan) and later in Minsk (Belarus). He trained hundreds of
students and during his professional life was (and still is) an inspiration, a teacher and a mentor
for scores of young and not so young taxonomists. With his inspiration, encouragement, guidance
and influence, schools of insect taxonomists appeared both in Dushanbe and Minsk, and that is
one of his most valuable achievements.
In contemplating this Festschrift we invited contributions from Lopatin’s students and
coleopterist friends, and colleagues in leaf beetle taxonomy. We feel that the assembled
contributions reflect Lopatin’s intellectual breadth and diverse scientific interests and we thank
the contributors for their efforts in trying to adhere to editorial guidelines and schedules.
Some contributions dwell on Lopatin’s interest in biogeography of arid areas of the Palearctic
Region. They describe zoogeographic connections between the sand desert faunas of Middle
Asia, Iran, and Afghanistan; leaf beetle fauna of the Hermon Mountains in Israel; details of
geographic distribution of crytocephaline leaf beetles in the Carpathian Basin; and entire
chrysomelid fauna of Bulgarian mountains. Other contributions reflect Lopatin’s interest in
host plant relationships: discovery of a rare crucifer in Turkey being eaten by an even rarer flea
beetle and report on host plants of Neotropical hispine leaf beetle. Some contributions are
revisions and keys for identification of important groups of leaf beetles, carabids, buprestids
and tenebrionids. Some are checklists, faunistic notes, ecological studies, and many contain
descriptions of new taxa in many beetle families.
We thank Donald R. Davis, Catherine N. Duckett, Terry L. Erwin, Jesus Gomez-Zurita, Steven
W. Lingafelter, Charyn J. Micheli, Gary L. Miller, K. D. Prathapan, Helen V. Shaverdo, S. Adam
Ślipiński, Eric H. Smith, Charles L. Staines, Charles A. Triplehorn, Norman E. Woodley, and
Robert E. Woodruff for their help in reviewing contributions. Marie Metz created the cover
illustration and concept. Mark Volkovitch, Juliett Meleshko and Alexander Pisanenko provided
photographs of I. K. Lopatin.
A. S. Konstantinov
A. K. Tishechkin
L. Penev
Introduction
IGOR KONSTANTINOVICH LOPATIN – A SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Igor Konstantinovich Lopatin was born on November 13, 1923 in Poltava (Ukraine). From
his early childhood he became interested in natural history. By the age of 12 he had his first
insect collection. While in school, Lopatin was briefly introduced to D. A. Ogloblin, one of the
most prominent leaf beetle systematist of the first half of the 20th century, who, at the time
worked in Poltava at the Museum of Nature. Lopatin graduated from Kharkov University in
1946 specializing in Zoology. His master’s thesis was on host plants of leaf beetles. Lopatin’s
mentor in the Division of Zoology was S. I. Medvedev, one of the most important systematic
entomologists of his time who specialized in scarab taxonomy. Medvedev was also an inspiring
teacher, brilliant lecturer and a highly educated biologist who made a great impression on a
young researcher. Medvedev and Lopatin remained friends until Medvedev’s death in 1979. They
published a paper on Middle Asian scarabs together.
Soon after graduation, Lopatin began to work at the nature reserve “Askania-Nova.” The
reserve was, and still is, a classic place for studies of the steppe environment. For four years
Lopatin collected and studied leaf beetles of the steppe regions north of the Black Sea including
the fauna of Askania-Nova, and in 1950 defended his kandidat (PhD) dissertation entitled
“Ecological and faunistic characterization of leaf beetles of southern Trans-Dniepr region.”
Since this early exposure to arid environment and its fauna, it became Lopatin’s favorite, which
he has studied for more than 50 years. Interest in arid biota eventually led him to Tadjikistan
where he spent 17 years studying arid mountains of Middle Asia. However, before that, he
worked for four years (between 1949 and 1953) at the Odessa University, first at the Zoological
Museum, and later at the Division of Zoology. At the time, the Division of Zoology was
I. K. Lopatin, collecting, Petr I mountain range (Tadzhikistan), 1954