On distribution of Lampyris noctiluca (Linnaeus, 1767) (Coleoptera, Lampyridae) in the Amur region Author Bezborodov, Vitaly G. Amur Branch of Botanical Garden-Institute of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2 - d km of Ignatevskoye road, Blagoveshchensk, 675000, Russia, Author Koshkin, Evgeny S. Institute of Water and Ecology Problems of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dikopoltsev St. 56, Khabarovsk, 680000, Russia; State Nature Reserve « Bureinskii », Zelenaya Str. 3, Chegdomyn, Khabarovskii Krai, 682030, Russia. Corresponding author: Vitaly G. Bezborodov; e-mail: cichrus @ yandex. ru Author .,. Author ., L. Author . Author . text Ecologica Montenegrina 2018 2018-03-02 16 111 113 https://www.biotaxa.org/em/article/view/em.2018.16.9 journal article 10.37828/em.2018.16.9 2336-9744 12716959 Lampyris noctiluca (Linnaeus, 1767) , Fig. 1 . RUSSIA : Amurskaya oblast': Skovorodinskii district : Dzhalinda , 11.VII.2003 , leg. V . G. Bezborodov , 1 female ; Urusha, 17.VII.2003 , leg. V . G. Bezborodov , 1 male ; Never, 29.VII.2004 , leg. V . G. Bezborodov , 1 female ; Zeyskii Nature Reserve , Bol`shaya Erakingra River , cordon “52 nd kilometer”, 20.VI 2017 , leg. A.A. Kuzmin , 1 female ; Selemdzhinskii district : Ekimchan , 10–11.VIII.2007 , leg. V . G. Bezborodov & O. V . Zhilin , 1 male ; Tyndinskii district : Gilui River , entry of Malyi Djeltulak River , 31.VII.2008 , leg. V . G. Bezborodov , 1 female ; Figure 1 . Distribution of Lampyris noctiluca in the basins of the Amur and Uda rivers Zeyskii district : Soktakhan Mountain Range , Bekel`deul` River , 25. VIII .2003, leg. V .G. Bezborodov, 1 male ; Magdagachinskii district: Sivaki, 20. VIII .2003 , leg. V . G. Bezborodov , 1 female ; Blagoveshchensk , Mokhovaya Pad`, 08–13. VI .1995, V . G. Bezborodov , 1 male , 4 female ; Blagoveshchenskii district : Prizeyskaya , 11–12. VII .1996, leg. V . G. Bezborodov , 1 male ; Belogorskii district : Belogorsk , 16. VI .1996, leg. V . G. Bezborodov , 1 male , 1 female ; Vozzhayevka , 10.VII 1997 , leg. A. Manukov , 1 male ; Svobodnenskii district : Svobodnyi , 1–6. VII .1991, leg. D. Gritsenko , 1 male ; Shimanovskii district : Shimanovsk , 24. VI .2005, leg. O. V . Zhilin , 1 female ; Mazanovskii district : Novokievskii Uval , 04. VII .1996, leg. Yu. Strecha , 2 male ; Romnenskii district : Znamenka , 9–13. VI .2004, leg. V . A. Yamkovoi , 1 female ; Zavitinskii district : Zavitinsk , 03-05. VI .2002, leg. O. Reshetnyov , 1 female ; Tambovskii district : Tambovka , 29. VI .2002, leg. O. Reshetnyov , 1 female ; Konstantinovskii district : Konstantinovka , 9–11.VII 2005 , leg. N. Panina , 1 female ; Bureyskii district : Talakan , 13–15. VI .2002, leg. T . A. Polyakova , 1 female ; Arkharinskii district : Arkhara , 21–22. VI .2002, leg. V . G. Bezborodov , 1 male ; Innokentyevka , 23. VI .2002, leg. V . G. Bezborodov , 1 female ; Kundur , 8–13. VI .1998, leg. V . G. Bezborodov , 2 male , 3 female ; Uril , 21. VI .2001, leg. V . G. Bezborodov , 1 male ; Evreiskaya avtonomnaya oblast': Obluchenskii district : Obluchye , 15. VI .1996, leg. A.A. Kuzmin , 1 male ; Oktyabr’skii district : Soyuznoe , 5–8.VII.2012 , leg. V . G. Bezborodov , 3 male , 1 female ; Birobidzhanskii district : Birobidzhan , 16. VI .2005 , leg. V . G. Bezborodov , 1 male ; Bastak Nature Reserve , cordon “Zaimka Ivakina”, 21. VI .2005 , leg. V . G. Bezborodov , 2 female ; Khabarovskii krai: Tuguro-Chumikanskii district : Uda River , entry of Shevli River , 23 – 25. VI .2008, leg. S.A. Golub`, 2 female ; Verkhnebureinskii district : Bureinskii Nature Reserve , Pravaya Bureya River , cordon “Novyi Medvezhii”, 52°07´N , 134°17´E , 880 m , 5.VII.2016 , leg. E.S. Koshkin , 1 male ; Bureya River , entry of Usman’ River , 51°32´N , 133°59´E , 495 m , 19.V.2010 , 1 mature larva ( E.S. Koshkin leg.) ; Chegdomyn, 20–21.VI.2009 , leg. V . G. Bezborodov , 1 male ; 10 km E Chegdomyn , El’gandzha River , 51°07´N , 133°09´E , 476 m , 14–16.VI.2011 , leg. E.S. Koshkin , 1 male ; Lazo district : 25 km SE Durmin village , Durmin River , 47°54´N , 136°02´E , 205 m , 23.VI.2017 , leg. E.S. Koshkin , 1 male ; Khabarovskii district : Matveevka , 6.VII.2017 , leg. E. V . Adnagulov, 1 female ; Bolshekhekhtsirskii Nature Reserve , cordon “Odyr”, 23–29.VI.2014 , leg. V . G. Bezborodov , 13 male . CHINA : Heilongjiang province : Heihe city, lake Uonyukhu , 19. VII .2009, leg. V . G. Bezborodov & O. V . Zhilin leg, 2 female . Distribution : Europe; Russia : European part, North Caucasus, Southern Ural, Southern Siberia, Amurskaya oblast', Evreiskaya avtonomnaya oblast', Khabarovskii krai, Primorskii krai, Sakhalin , Southern Kuriles Azerbaidzhan; Mongolia ; China : Heilongjiang (Heihe), Jilin (Chanbaishan); North Korea ( Medvedev & Ryvkin, 1992 ; Tyler, 2002 ; Li & al., 2003 ; Geisthardt & Sato, 2007 ; Kazantsev, 2010 , 2011 ). In east sector of an area of Lampyris noctiluca gets into subzones of the southern and middle boreal forests where it is widespread in inundated ecosystems. Sporadic distribution of a species in high latitudes is possibly bound to secondary expansion of an area in the Holocene.