Taxonomical, systematical and zoogeographical researches on fauna of Prioninae-Cerambycinae of Western Taurus mts. and South-Eastern Taurus mts. (Coleoptera:Cerambycidae)

In this study, totally 2831 longicorn beetles specimens belong to the subfamilies Prioninae, Lepturinae, Aseminae, Spondylidinae and Cerambycinae that collected in the years of 2006-2007 from various localities of Western Taurus Mts. (Gevne valley, Geyik Mt., Şeytan Mt., Yıldız Mt., Ak Mt.) and South- Eastern Taurus Mts. (Amanos Mountains) are evaluated faunistically, taxonomically, systematically and zoogeographically. The remarks related to zoogeography, fauna and taxonomy are also given in the present study. Both research areas analysed comparatively. On the results of identification of these specimens are determined totally 61 taxa belonging to 5 subfamilies and 39 genera. Anastrangalia sanguinolenta (Linnaeus, 1761), Stictoleptura tesserula (Charpentier, 1825) in Lepturinae and Spondylis buprestoides (Linnaeus, 1758) in Spondylidinae are new records for Mediterranean Region of Turkey. Dinoptera collaris (Linnaeus, 1758), Anastrangalia sanguinolenta (Linnaeus, 1761) in Lepturinae and Certallum ebulinum ruficolle (Fabricius, 1787) in Cerambycinae for Western Taurus Mts. and Callergates gaillardoti (Chevrolat, 1854), Aegosoma scabricorne (Scopoli, 1763), Mesoprionus besicanus (Fairmaire, 1855) in Prioninae, Stenocorus auricomus Reitter, 1890, Dinoptera collaris (Linnaeus, 1758), Stictoleptura tesserula (Charpentier, 1825), Paracorymbia vii excisipes (Daniel, 1893) in Lepturinae, Arhopalus rusticus (Linnaeus, 1758), Arhopalus syriacus (Reitter, 1895) in Aseminae, Spondylis buprestoides (Linnaeus, 1758) in Spondylidinae and Phoracantha recurva Newman, 1840, Purpuricenus budensis interscapilatus Plavilstshikov, 1937, Purpuricenus nudicollis Demelt, 1968, Aromia moschata ambrosiaca (Stevens, 1809), Chlorophorus trifasciatus (Fabricius, 1781) in Cerambycinae for South-Eastern Taurus Mts. are the first records. As a result of this study, the fauna of Prioninae-Cerambycinae of Western Taurus Mts. and South-Eastern Taurus Mts. increased from 67 to 70 and from 89 to 104 respectively. Total 14 taxa and 9 taxa for studied areas in Western Taurus Mts. and South-Eastern Taurus Mts. are the first records respectively. In addition to this, many taxa are the first records for collecting provinces. Stenocorus auricomus Reitter, 1890, Cortodera alpina xanthoptera Pic, 1898, Cortodera cirsii Holzschuh, 1974, Grammoptera merkli Frivaldsky, 1884, Paracorymbia excisipes (Daniel, 1893), Pedostrangalia adaliae (Reitter, 1885), Purpuricenus nudicollis Demelt, 1968, Anatolobrium eggeri Adlbauer, 2004 and Clytus ciliciensis Chevrolat, 1863 are endemic to Turkey.