Can anyone help with the identification keys for Palearctic Bruchinae. ?

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Nikolaus Szucsich

I am no coleopterologist

But try to contact Erdem Hizal and N. Nihan Parlak of the Department of Forest Entomology and Protection at the Istanbul University. They recently published on Bruchinae of Turkey.

see http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1653/024.096.0109

András Bozsik

Dear Ali,

Her you can find some useful home pages:

http://www.nhmus.hu/~gyorgy/zsizsiklistaangol.html

http://bugguide.net/node/view/13857

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Global-Site-of-the-Family-Bruchidae-hodie-Bruchinae/320625191391604

http://www.apollobooks.com/PDF/CatPalColIndex_vol6.pdf

http://bug.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/

http://www.zin.ru/animalia/Coleoptera/eng/atl_br.htm

Zbyšek Šustek

There also exist a key for Bruchidae from Fauna of Armenian USSR by A. P. Karapezjyan published in 1985

Фауна Армянской ССР, насекомые жеыскокрылые, Зерновки, Ереван, 170 с.

It is from an adjacent territory to Turkey. A ggod key for species from Central Europe sensu lato was published in Fauna Hungariae. It can be also useful.