Blister Beetles (Coleoptera: Meloidae) of Ankara (Türkiye) in Terms of Ecological Properties and Zoogeographical Composition

Abstract

This study aims to perform an ecological and zoogeographical analysis of the Meloidae in Ankara province, Türkiye. The ecological evaluations detected higher species diversities in June, 701-900m in elevation range, and 20.1-25.0°C in air temperature. There was no difference in the detecting elevations according to the phylogenetic positions of the species, a significant difference was observed between the collecting air temperatures. Host plants of 33 species were identified. The zoogeographic analysis revealed that the highest rate (18.6% of the detected species) was in the Turano-European regions. Table 5. This study of the species detected from Ankara chorotypes and distributions in geographic regions of Türkiye (MR: Marmara Region, AR: Aegean Region, CAR: Central Anatolian Region (those written in bold were added with this work), MNR: Mediterranean Region, BSR: Black Sea Region, EAR: Eastern Anatolia Region, SAR: Southeastern Anatolia Region, *: species with detailed locality registration in Türkiye for the first time with this study) Species Geographical regions of Türkiye Distribution of Species in the World Cerocoma (s.str.) bernhaueri