Curculio (Curculio) elephas (Gyllenhal, 1836)

Family

Curculionidae

Subfamily

Curculioninae

Tribe

Curculionini

Original Genus

Balaninus

Distribution

Central Macedonia, Epirus, Ionian Islands, and Peloponnese

Synonym

• mastodon Jekel, 1861 (Balaninus)

Literature Reference

First Description

• Gyllenhal, L. (1835): [new taxa]. In: Schoenherr C. J.: Genera et species curculionidum, cum synonymia hujus familiae. Species novae aut hactenus minus cognitae, descriptionibus a Dom. Leonardo Gyllenhal, C. H. Boheman, et entomologis aliis illustratae. Tomus tertius. - Pars prima. [1836]. Parisiis: Roret; Lipsiae: Fleischer, [6] + 505 pp.

Findings

Central Macedonia

• 1 ex.: Chalcidice, Arnea 12 km SW, 750 m, 40°25'27''N 23°28'38''E, 11.10.2010, leg. Bahr & Winkelmann, det. Bahr, coll. Bahr
• 2 ex.: Chalcidice, Taxiarchis env. (NE Polygyros), 925 m, 40°23'21''N 23°27'53''E, 19.10.2010, leg. Bahr & Winkelmann, det. Bahr, coll. Bahr

Epirus

• 1 ex.: Thesprotia, Petrovitsa, 355 m, (19 km E Igoumenitsa) 39°33'30''N 20°28'12''E, 01.10.2007, Arbutus, Platanus, 355 m, leg. Stüben, det. Winkelmann, coll. Stüben

Ionian Islands

• 1 ex.: Corfu, Lake Korissia, 8 m, (20 km S Kerkyra), 39°26'19''N 19°54'32''E, 04.10.2007, Quercus, Arbutus, Mastix, Pistacia, leg. Behne, det. Behne, coll. Behne

Peloponnese

• 1 male: Peloponnes, E Korinthos, Kehries, Steilküste, 21.9.2014, leg., det. & coll. C. Germann

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