New and rare weevils in Hungary: distributional records and notes (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea)

Abstract

-Collecting data, mostly newer than the year 2000, of weevil species considered to be rare in Hungary are given. Th ree species are new to the fauna of Hungary: Rhynchites slovenicus (Purkyně, 1954), Hypurus bertrandi (Perris, 1852) and Stenoscelis submuricata (Schönherr, 1832). Observations on host plants or information about distribution of species are also presented. With 8 fi gures.

A terrestrial record of climate variation during MIS 11 through multiproxy palaeotemperature reconstructions from Hoxne, UK

“…It was very abundant at the top of Stratum D. Its presence in Stratum C may seem anomalous but is not necessarily inconsistent with the assemblage, as its ability to live on a variety of tree hosts (including Salix , notwithstanding that Salix polaris is a tundra shrub rather than a tree) may have allowed it to be more tolerant of cool conditions. The original view, based on research by Gaunt et al (1972) and Hoffmann (1954), was that this is a Mediterranean species, but more recent records show that it can also be found in western and eastern Europe across to Switzerland, Austria (Folwaczny, 1983), Hungary (Szénási, 2014), montane regions of France and the Pyrenees (Hoffmann, 1954), and northern coastal France (GBIF, 2018). A review by Whitehouse (2006) of many non-British Holocene fossil cossinine weevils, a group to which S. submuricatus belongs (note that some authors prefer to assign the species to the genus Rhyncolus ), suggests their modern distribution is more likely to be influenced by availability of quality habitat rather than temperature per se.…”

Four new weevil species in the fauna of Hungary (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

“…Since 2010, several species of Curculionidae were found as new to Hungary (see e.g. Podlussány et al 2014, Szénási 2014, 2016. Th e present paper adds four further species to the last published checklist of Hungarian Curculionoidea (Pod lussány 1996), which is being updated and will probably be published in 2018.…”