New Records of Weevils of the Subtribe Tanymecina (Coleoptera, Curculionidae: Entiminae) Collected by O. N. Kabakov in Afghanistan

Resumo

Four species of the weevil subtribe Tanymecina collected in Afghanistan by the Late O.N. Kabakov, the prominent Russian geologist and amateur entomologist, are recorded from this country for the first time: Esamus ?cylindricollis Reitter, 1889, Megamecus (Acercomecus) argentatus (Gyllenhal, 1840), M. (Megamecus) cinctus (Faust, 1887), and Phacephorus nebulosus (Fåhraeus, 1840). Megamecus (M.) cinctus is also a new record for Uzbekistan.