Review of the subgenus Turcmenicola Bogatchev, 1952, the genus Colposcelis Dejean, 1834 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Tentyriini) Author Bekchanov, Norbek Kh. Author Nabozhenko, Maxim V. Precaspian Institute of Biological Resources of the Daghestan Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, M. Gadzhiev str., 45, Makhachkala, Republic of Dagestan 367000, Russia. & Dagestan State University, M. Gadzhiev str., 43 a, Makhachkala, Republic of Dagestan 367000, Russia Author Bekchanova, Mokhira Kh. Urgench State University, Kh. Alimdjan str., 14, Urgench 220100, Uzbekistan. text Zootaxa 2023 2023-11-24 5375 4 550 564 https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5375.4.6/52345 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5375.4.6 1175-5326 10203164 7DBBC861-FC05-4F54-A851-FEC9A5821802 Colposcelis ( Turcmenicola ) selevini Skopin, 1951 ( Figs 5 , 6 ) Skopin 1951: 124 ( Colposcelis ( Scelocolpis )); Skopin 1961b: 175 ( Colposcelis ( Scelocolpis )); Medvedev 1970: 405 ( Colposcelis ( Turcmenicola )). Type material (studied). Paratypes (from the type locality), 2♂♂ ( ZIN ): “Yu. Kazakhstan Betpak Dala, Cholak- Espe” ( Cyrillic , light blue, handwritten by N.G. Skopin ), “ 7.06.1936 V. Selevin ” (Cyrillic, light blue, handwritten by N.G. Skopin ), “coll. N. Skopin ” (white, printed), “ Paratypus Colposcelis Selevini 1948 N. Skopin ” (red, handwritten by N.G. Skopin ) . Material. 1♂ , 2♀♀ ( ZIN ): Kazakhstan , Karasu River 300 km S Dzhezkazgan , 18.v.1970 (leg. N.G. Skopin ) ; 2♀♀ ( ZIN ): Kazakhstan , the city of Balkhash , 23.ix.1971 (leg. N.G. Skopin ) . Distribution and bionomics. The species is distributed in the Betpak-Dala desert in Central Kazakhstan east to Balkhach Lake. Beetles occur in clay desert with Anabasis and Artemisia ( Skopin 1951 , 1961b ).