The drifter that came in from the cold: First record of Sthereus ptinoides (E.F.Germar, 1823) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Europe Fjakkarin, sum kom inn úr kuldanum: Fyrsta skrásting av Sthereus ptinioides (E.F.Germar, 1823) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) frá Evropa.
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Aug 12, 2025
Agnes-Katharina Kreiling
Leivur Janus Hansen
Jan Pedersen
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5378-2331
Leivur Janus Hansen
Jan Pedersen
Abstract
The weevil Sthereus ptinoides is reported as a new record for the Faroe Islands as well as Europe. The species develops in sea-water soaked driftwood and is apparently distributed from far-east Russia to Europe in logs drifting in the ocean currents.
Úrtak
Í hesi greinini verður boðað frá fyrstu skráseting av rekatrantinum Sthereus ptinoides, bæði í Føroyum og í Evropa. Hetta klukkuslagið mennist í vatndruknaðum rekaviði, sum helst er komið til Føroya úr eystara parti av Russlandi.
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Keywords
Weevil, Faroe Islands, Beetle, Driftwood, Trantklukka, Klukka, Rekaviður, Føroyar
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Webster, Reginald, Robert Anderson, Jon Sweeney, and Ian DeMerchant. 2012. ‘New Coleoptera Records from New Brunswick, Canada: Anthribidae, Brentidae, Dryophthoridae, Brachyceridae, and Curculionidae, with Additions to the Fauna of Quebec, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island’. ZooKeys 179 (April):349–406. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.179.2626.
Dokuchaev, N. E., and B. A. Korotyaev. 2018. ‘The Bionomics of the Weevil Sthereus Ptinoides (Germar, 1824) (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) in the Northern Sea of Okhotsk Area’. Entomological Review 98 (9): 1159–64. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873818090014.
Häggblom, A. 1982. Driftwood in Svalbard as an Indicator of Sea Ice Conditions. Geografiska Annaler. Series A, Physical Geography Vol. 64, No. 1/2 (1982), pp. 81-94. https://doi.org/10.2307/520496
Hellmann, Lena, Willy Tegel, Alexander V. Kirdyanov, Ólafur Eggertsson, Jan Esper, Leonid Agafonov, Anatoly N. Nikolaev, et al. 2015. ‘Timber Logging in Central Siberia Is the Main Source for Recent Arctic Driftwood’. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 47 (3): 449–60. https://doi.org/10.1657/AAAR0014-063.
Legalov, Andrei A. 2020. ‘Revised Checklist of Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea Excluding Scolytidae and Platypodidae) from Siberia and the Russian Far East’. Acta Biologica Sibirica 6 (November):437–549. https://doi.org/10.3897/abs.6.e59314.
Webster, Reginald, Robert Anderson, Jon Sweeney, and Ian DeMerchant. 2012. ‘New Coleoptera Records from New Brunswick, Canada: Anthribidae, Brentidae, Dryophthoridae, Brachyceridae, and Curculionidae, with Additions to the Fauna of Quebec, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island’. ZooKeys 179 (April):349–406. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.179.2626.
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