Distributional notes on Chrysomelidae from Pakistan and Afghanistan (Coleoptera)
Author
Nadein, Konstantin S.
Author
Ahmed, Zubair
Author
Sergeev, Maxim
text
Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology
2012
2012-05-15
62
225
233
http://dx.doi.org/10.21248/contrib.entomol.62.1.225-233
journal article
10.21248/contrib.entomol.62.1.225-233
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Chrysolina marginata circumducta
(MÉNÉTRIÉS, 1835)
New record:
Afghanistan
,
Kabul Province
,
5 km
NW
Kabul
,
Kargha
locality,
2000 m
, 15-
16.05.2010
,
1 ex.
;
Afghanistan
,
Bamyan Province
,
Kokhi-Baba Mountain range
,
10 km
S
Bamyan
,
30.05.2010
,
1 ex.
This holarctic species is polytypic with a complicated situation within the species complex and unclear status of the most of subspecies described so far. Only the subspecies
Chrysolina marginata bodemeyeri
(Weise, 1910)
has been recorded from
Afghanistan
from
Herat
,
Oruzgan
,
Baghlan
, and
Kabul
(
Medvedev 1985
). Thus, this subspecies is recorded from
Afghanistan
for the first time
.