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Geographical distribution of the weevil subfamily Ceutorhynchinae (Coleoptera, Curculionidae)

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A brief general characteristic and review of distribution of the subfamily Ceutorhynchinae over zoogeographical realms are given, with an emphasis on the distribution within the Holarctic and Palaearctic. The potential of exploiting landscapes of all natural zones of the Holarctic by a low-rank taxon is exemplified by the Holarctic Ceutorhynchus cochleariae (Gyll.) species-group comprising ca. 20 species evenly distributed between the Palaearctic and Nearctic. Although neighboring with the powerful centers of tropical biota, the Holarctic fauna of the subfamily Ceutorhynchinae is formed mostly of endemic and subendemic genera which are especially abundant in the Palaearctic. This region possesses the most diversified generic and species composition of the fauna consisting of predominantly endemic and subendemic genera (in the Mediterranean and Saharo-Gobian regions, also of the highly diversified tribe Oxyonychini) up to its southern border. The existence of characteristic transitional faunas in the zones of contact of the Holarctic fauna with the faunas of the tropical regions in East Asia and Mexico is shown. These transitional faunas include a considerable number of endemic taxa of the genus and species groups. A conspicuous feature of the Palaearctic ceutorhynchine fauna is the rather numerous complex of the upland and high-latitude species.

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Original Russian Text © B.A. Korotyaev, 2008, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2008, Vol. 87, No. 4, pp. 854–879.

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Korotyaev, B.A. Geographical distribution of the weevil subfamily Ceutorhynchinae (Coleoptera, Curculionidae). Entmol. Rev. 88, 928–947 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873808080071

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