Aquatic Coleoptera fauna of aquatic resources in crop fields in Naghadeh, Azarbaijan-e-Gharbi province, Iran

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Received: 2012-06-17 Accepted : 2013-03-06 Published : 2013-02-19

Keywords: fauna, Aquatic Coleoptera, Field Crops, Naghadeh,

Abstract :

During 2011 a faunistic study that was carried out on the coleopteran fauna of aquatic resources in crop fields in Naghadeh, Azarbaijan-e-Gharbi. A total of six species belonging to six families were collected and identified. Out of which, six following species are new records for the studied region: Anthicidae:   Anthicus antherinus (Linnaeus, 1761) Carabidae:    Paussus turcicus (Frivaldszky, 1835) Dryopidae:    Dryops rufipes (Krynicki, 1832) Gyrinidae:     Aulonogyrus concinnus (Klug, 1834) Haliplidae:    Haliplus abbreviates (Wehncke, 1880) Helophoridae: Helophorus (Eutrichelophorus) micans (Faldermann, 1835)   In addition, a few exemplars from seven families i.e. Chrysomelidae, Coccinellidae, Curculionidae, Noteridae, Scarabaeidae, Staphylinidae and Geotrupidae were collected that are under identification process. The entire specimens were deposited at Entomology Laboratory Collection, Department of Entomology, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran.

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