First Record of Insect species from the Families Scarabidae and Glaphyridae Feeding on the Kenger Plant in Diyarbakır, Şanlıurfa and Mardin Provinces, Türkiye

As a result of this study conducted in 2021 in the Karacadağ area within the borders of Diyarbakır (Bağlar, Ergani and Çınar districts), Şanlıurfa (Siverek and Viranşehir districts) and Mardin (Derik district) provinces, two insect species from the Scarabaeidae family and one insect species from the Glaphyridae family of the Coleoptera order that feed on the flowers of the Kenger plant were identified. These species are Oxythyrea cinctella, Blitopertha nigripennis (Scarabaeidae) and Eulasia pareyssei (Glaphyridae). This is the first study to report that these species feed on the Kenger plant. While the distributions of the three species identified in the study were similar, their densities differed. E. pareyssei was seen fewer than other two species.