Finds of Cisurgus ferulae Pfeffer, 1983 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae: Scolytinae) in Kazakhstan

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Abstract

Cisurgus ferulae Pfeffer, 1983 is recorded for the first time in Northern and Southern Kazakhstan. Original photographs of adult external structures, male genitalia, spermatheca, biotopes, and host plants are provided as well as an amended description of the species.

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A. S. Kurochkin

Самарский национальный исследовательский университет им. академика С. П. Королева

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Russian Federation, Московское ш., 34, Самара, 443086

M. Y. Mandelshtam

Санкт-Петербургский государственный лесотехнический университет им. С. М. Кирова

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кафедра защиты леса, древесиноведения и охотоведения

Russian Federation, Институтский пер., 5, С.-Петербург, 194021

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2. Fig. 1. Cisurgus ferulae Pfeffer, general view of the beetle and genitals of male and female (1-2 – 12.29 km South of Akkuduk village; 3-8 – 30.89 km north of Egizkum village). 1, 3 ‒ top view; 2, 4 ‒ side view; 5 ‒ anterior tibia; 6 – tendril; 7 – edeagus; 8 – spermateca.

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3. Fig. 2. Cisurgus ferulae Pfeffer, 30.89 km from the village of Egizkum. Photos from a scanning electron microscope. 1 ‒ top view; 2 ‒ side view; 3 ‒ bottom view; 4 ‒ anterior chest and head, side view; 5 ‒ head, side view; 6 ‒ head, top view; 7 ‒ head, bottom view; 8 ‒ oral apparatus, bottom and front view.

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4. Fig. 3. Biotope of Cisurgus ferulae Pfeffer in Northern Kazakhstan (12.29 km South of Akkuduk village). 1 – general view of the biotope; 2 – forage plant Ferula foetida (Bunge) Regel with immature seeds; 3, 4 – imago inside last year's stem of a forage plant with borax flour; 5 – imago on the tissues of the stem of a forage plant plants.

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5. Fig. 4. The biotope of Cisurgus ferulae Pfeffer in Southern Kazakhstan (30.89 km from the village of Egizkum). 1 ‒ general view of the biotope; 2, 3 ‒ microstation with a flowering forage plant, Ferula varia (Schrenk) Trautv.; 4 – freshly dug ferula root; 5 – rotten last year's ferula root with the base of the stem; 6, 7 ‒ imago C. ferulae in the rotten root of the forage plant.

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