Polydrusus (Polydrusus) mecedanus (Reitter, 1808)

Family

Curculionidae

Subfamily

Entiminae

Tribe

Polydrusini

Original Genus

Chaerodrys

Distribution

Peloponnese

Literature References

First Description

• Reitter, E. (1908) Uebersicht der mir bekannten Arten der Curculioniden-Untergattung Chaerodrys Duv. Entomologische Blätter, 4, 32–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mmnd.48018950211

Further Description

• Borovec, R. & Germann, C. 2013. Two new species of Polydrusus (Polydrusus) from Turkey, Iran and Greece (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae: Polydrusini). Zootaxa 3693 (1): 075–084.

Findings

Peloponnese

• 1 ex.: Milia NW, Mts.Taygetos, 535m, 08.05.2019, leg. det. coll. J. Messutat
• 1 ex.: Veria SW, Kastania, 28.06.1997, leg. Messutat, det. Winkelmann, coll. Messutat [originally determined as P. moricei]
• 1 male HT: Peloponnes [handwritten] / Graecia Peloponnes [partly printed, partly handwritten] / Holotypus 1908 Polydrusus (Chaedorys) (sic!) mecedanus Reitter [red margins, handwritten, not original label] / Chaerodrys sp. [handwritten] / Coll. Reitter [printed] / LECTOTYPUS Polydrusus mecedanus Reitter, R. Borovec desig. 2013 [red, printed], coll. Természettudományi Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary [taken from Borovec & Germann 2013]