New species and records of Quedius rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Staphylininae) from Middle Asia Author Salnitska, Maria 5E4AABE4-42DE-4984-BE96-BAAAD698C387 University of Tyumen, X-BIO Institute, 6 Volodarskogo Str., Tyumen, Russia. Natural History Museum of Denmark at the University of Copenhagen, Zoological Museum, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg, Universitetskaya Embankment 1, Saint-Petersburg, Russia. m.salnitska@gmail.com Author Solodovnikov, Alexey 615DA895-6811-45F6-8439-DF95718D63CE asolodovnikov@snm.ku.dk text European Journal of Taxonomy 2022 2022-06-16 823 141 157 journal article 78131 10.5852/ejt.2022.823.1823 aa6da2b1-d56a-4e13-9d28-43f74d2208f1 2118-9773 6658765 D15094A8-8BDA-4E34-A67E-E2072CAEC381 Quedius ( Microsaurus ) sp . ex . mutilatus group Material examined KAZAKHSTAN • 2 ♂♂ ; Tarbagatay Mts , Karakol River ; 23 Aug. 1989 ; V.A. Kastcheev leg.; ZIN . Remarks Prior to this study, the northernmost record for the peculiar mutilatus group was presented by three specimens from the Dzhungarian Alatau ( Salnitska & Solodovnikov 2018b ). However, at that time we considered that record as questionable, possibly based on mislabelling, because of its very distant location from the core distribution area for this group. The specimens examined here come from a locality even further northwards. Thus, it can be argued that the formerly questioned record from Dzhungarian Alatau was in fact not erroneous. These findings show that the distribution of the mutilatus group extends significantly northwards. Unfortunately, as in the case of the material from Dzhungarian Alatau ( Salnitska & Solodovnikov 2018b ), both male specimens from the Tarbagatay Mountains reported here are damaged by dermestids and their aedeagi are lost. Based on the external morphology, both specimens clearly belong to the Q. mutilatus group, but a more precise identification at the moment is not possible.