On taxonomy and distribution of the genus Carpelimus Leach, 1819 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae) of Nepal
Author
Gildenkov, Mikhail Yu.
text
Baltic Journal of Coleopterology
2014
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.10667397
1407-8619
10667397
Carpelimus (Troginus) despectus
(Baudi di Selve, 1870)
(
despectus
Mulsant & Rey, 1870
;
despectus
var.
leederi
Bernhauer, 1940
)
Coiffait, 1982: 44
Remarks.
The species is known from the Palaearctic:
Austria
,
Germany
,
Italy
,
Poland
,
Russia
(the West and the Center of the European part (
Moscow
Area,
Smolensk
Area,
Yaroslavl
Area), Western Siberia (
Tyumen
Area)),
Switzerland
(
Gildenkov, 2001: 271
;
2009a: 253
),
Russia
(Eastern Siberia (
Irkutsk
Area)) (
Gildenkov & Shavrin, 2012: 53
),
Byelorussia
(
Gildenkov & Derunkov, 2012: 62
). Recently it was recorded for the
Ukraine
(our data). It is a species difficult to identify. To use faunistic data of other authors about
C. despectus
outside Europe must be followed with great care. The record of
C. despectus
from
Nepal
cannot be considered confirmed and it seems to me doubtful because a single specimen of
C. despectus
, specified by Coiffait more probably belonged to the widely distributed in
Nepal
and rather morphologically variable
C. atomus
.