First record of soft-winged flower beetles (Coleoptera, Malachiidae) in a late Pleistocene deposit from West Siberia with a review of known Quaternary data
Author
Tshernyshev, Sergei E.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5931-9241
Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Frunze Street, 11, Novosibirsk, 630091, Russia & Tomsk State University, Lenina pr. 36, 634050, Tomsk, Russia
sch-sch@mail.ru
Author
Dudko, Roman Yu.
Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Frunze Street, 11, Novosibirsk, 630091, Russia & Tomsk State University, Lenina pr. 36, 634050, Tomsk, Russia
Author
Gurina, Anna A.
Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Frunze Street, 11, Novosibirsk, 630091, Russia
Author
Legalov, Andrei A.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7347-8169
Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Frunze Street, 11, Novosibirsk, 630091, Russia & Tomsk State University, Lenina pr. 36, 634050, Tomsk, Russia
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Acta Biologica Sibirica
2021
2021-01-12
7
1
19
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/abs.7.e60615
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/abs.7.e60615
2412-1908-7-1
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D8BE6AC918CB516B913B9A325F4E4A09
Apalochrus femoralis pallipes Motschulsky, 1860
Sub-fossil material.
Site Ustyanka-1 (2020), section I, sample 20 (depth 5.00-
5.06 m
) - fragments No. 22 (right elytron) (Fig.
3c
) and No. 23 (left elytron) (Fig.
3b
).
Comparative material.
Neotype
, male:
Kazakhstan
:
Kokchetavskaya
Oblast'
: env. of
Ruzaevka
vill.,
54°04'N
,
44°52'E
, sweeping in a field of wheat,
28.VI.1982
,
G. Sukacheva
leg. (Fig.
3a
).
Figure 3.
Apalochrus femoralis pallipes
:
a
, general view of the
neotype
;
b
,
c
, sub-fossil fragments from the Ustyanka-1.
Fragment description.
Left elytron, black with green-blue metallic lustre, narrow, expanded and rounded posteriorly, densely and deeply punctured, suture entire, sizes: 0.44 mm at base near humerus, 0.77 mm at widest part near apices, 2.25 mm length; right elytron looks similar to the left, sizes: 0.45 mm at base near humerus, 0.73 mm at widest part near apices, 2.28 mm length.
Distribution.
Asia: Kazakhstan - Transcapian steppes, Kokchetavskaya, Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya
Oblast'
, Russia: South Urals - Orenburgskaya
Oblast'
, West Siberia - Tyumenskaya, Omskaya, Novosibirskaya
Oblast'
, Altaiskii Krai.
Habitat.
Cereal steppes and meadows of Inner Asia.
Notes.
For a detailed description of the subspecies see
Tshernyshev 2016
: 363-365, figs 3-4, 15-18, 19.