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 text 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 B11974690BF4485CA8A234937496AB0D 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.