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Gianfranco Sama

  • Biodiversity Journal, 2 (2): 085-088

    Gianfranco Sama & Pierpaolo Rapuzzi
    Description of three new species of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) from Turkey and Syria

    ABSTRACT
    The following new taxa are described and illustrated: Chlorophorus grosseri n. sp. from Southern and Eastern Turkey, close to C. adelii Holzschuh, 1974 from Western Iran; Chlorophorus oezdikmeni n. sp. from Turkey compared to C. hungaricus Seidlitz, 1891 and Leiopus wrzecionkoi n. sp. from North-Eastern Syria, compared to L. syriacus (Ganglbauer, 1884).

  • Biodiversity Journal, 12 (3): 0539-0560

    Pierpaolo Rapuzzi, Gianfranco Sama, Sadreddin Tusun, Hüseyin Cebeci, Hüseyin Özdikmen, Daniele Baiocchi, Gianluca Magnani, Ivan Rapuzzi & Musa Geçit
    The longhorn beetles (Coleptera Cerambycidae) of Mardin province (Turkey) with the description of two new species and one new subspecies
    https://doi.org/10.31396/Biodiv.Jour.2021.12.3.539.560

    ABSTRACT
    In this paper we provide a check-list of the Coleoptera Cerambycidae of Mardin province (South-eastern Turkey); describe two new species, Agapanthia mardinensis Rapuzzi n. sp. and Pygoptosia darzerkensis Rapuzzi n. sp. and one new subspecies, Phytoecia (Neomusaria) mesopotamica barbarae Rapuzzi n. ssp. Additionally, three species and one subspecies are recorded for the first time for the Turkish Fauna. Information obtained from literature is listed, as well as the results of researches conducted in the area by the authors during several entomological expeditions. Additional data of specimens preserved in several European Museums is given.