Notaris maerkeli (Boheman, 1843)

Nazarenko, V. Yu., 2018, The New Record Of Notaris Maerkeli (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Brachycerinae) From Ukraine, Ukrainska Entomofaunistyka 9 (2), pp. 7-9 : 7-8

publication ID	2078–9653
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17033413
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039F87CF-D219-9A28-FCCB-907CA72E935A
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Notaris maerkeli (Boheman, 1843)
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Notaris maerkeli (Boheman, 1843) ( Fig. 2)

Material examined: Ukraine: Volyn Region, Kivertsi District , 2, 5 km SW Domashiv, former pasture, 50.928327°N, 25.668864°E — 50.927332°N, 25.667993°E, sweeping grass with 200 strokes, 28.09.2018, 1 ♀ ( V. Yu. Nazarenko) GoogleMaps .

Both wingless Notaris species have strongly reduced elytral humeri unlike other Ukrainian representatives of the genus. Notaris maerkeli differs from related N. aterrima by scutellum distinctly visible, pronotal punctures more dispersed with distance between them almost equal to their diameter and body dorsal surface slightly shining ( Smreczyński, 1972; Dieckmann, 1986).

In Europe it is distributed also in Austria, Belarus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland ( Caldara, 2011). In some European countries N. maerkeli is treated as rare and (or) relic ( Schneider, Gruschwitz, 2004; Kubíková, 2005; Křivan, Stejskal, 2009; Szénási, 2014).

The species occurs mainly in wet meadows and forest glades ( Fig. 3) in II– VI, VIII –XII being captured by ground shifting under and near Scirpus sylvaticus ( Cyperaceae ) ( Dieckmann, 1986). Host plant is not limiting the species distributional range while is wide spread in Ukraine, registered not only in Polissia forests but in Kyiv, Poltava, Vinnytsia regions too (UkrBIN, 2018).