_____________Mun. Ent. Zool. Vol. 13, No. 2, June 2018__________ 548 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF CARABIDAE (COLEOPTERA) FAUNA OF TURKEY WITH NEW LOCALITY RECORDS Serdar Tezcan*, Yusuf Karsavuran* and Esat Pehlivan* * Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ege, 35100 Bornova, Izmir, TURKEY. E-mail:
[email protected] [Tezcan, S., Karsavuran, Y. & Pehlivan, E. 2018. Contributions to the knowledge of Carabidae (Coleoptera) fauna of Turkey with new locality records. Munis Entomology & Zoology, 13 (2): 548-565] ABSTRACT: In this paper, some new locality records of 194 species/subspecies belonging to 59 genera of 16 subfamilies of Carabidae fauna of Turkey housed in the collection of LEMT (Lodos Entomological Museum Turkey), Ege University, Izmir, Turkey, have been given. KEY WORDS: Carabidae, fauna, ground beetles, Turkey Carabidae fauna of Turkey is quite rich and the recent studies of Lodos (1983, 1989), Čatloš & Moravec (1999), Cavazzuti (1999, 2003, 2006), Andujar & Serrano (2000), Kocatepe & Mergen (2004), Kesdek (2008, 2010, 2012, 2013), Kesdek & Yıldırım (2004a, b, 2007a, b, c, 2008, 2010a, b), Avgın (2011), Avgın & Cavazzuti (2011), Avgın & Emre (2007, 2008), Avgın & Prunier (2007, 2010), Deuve & Kesdek (2013), Küçükkaykı et al. (2013), Fidan et al. (2014) and Özgen et al. (2017) have great importance in this field. In different parts of Turkey, some ground beetle material have been collected and housed in the collection of LEMT (Lodos Entomological Museum Turkey), Ege University, Izmir, Turkey by researchers of Plant Protection Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Ege University, between the years of 1955-1997. Those material have been determined by F. Hieke, H. Freude, J.