Bolbelasmus (Bolbelasmus) zagrosensis (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Bolboceratidae), a new species from Iran, along with an updated key to the western Palaearctic species of the subgenus

Abstract

Bolbelasmus (Bolbelasmus) zagrosensis Sommer, Hillert, Hrůzová & Král, new species, from Iran is described, illustrated and compared with its congeners known from the western Palaearctic region. An updated key to the western Palaearctic species of the nominotypical subgenus is provided. New country record of B. (B.) nireus (Reitter, 1895) from Greece (island of Rhodes) is reported. Distribution of B. (B.) makrisi Miessen, 2011, B. (B.) nireus and the new species is summarized and mapped.

Addenda and corrigenda: Juřena D (2022) A critical review of the distribution of the endangered European earth-borer beetle Bolbelasmus unicornis (Coleoptera, Geotrupidae), with new records from 13 countries and observations on its bionomy. ZooKeys 1105: 1–125. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1105.81474

“…This map was compiled by manually placing the circles in the grid map used for faunistic research in these countries in standard free graphics software. For the distribution map of Europe, the following time periods are used: pre-1950pre- , 1950pre- -1999pre- and post-1999; the distribution map of the Western Palaearctic representatives of the unicornis species group was compiled using data contained in Krikken (1977), Lodos et al (1999), Petersen et al (2006), Miessen (2011), Miessen and Trichas (2011), Hillert et al (2016), Sommer et al (2021) and Juřena (2022). Both of the latter maps were created using the Google Maps web application by inserting specific GPS coordinates into the system.…”