taxonID	type	description	language	source
073587F8E26E0D1BFC72D625040A612F.taxon	materials_examined	6 specimens [private collection A. Degiovanni; Fig. 1]: ‘ Pakistan: NWFP, S. Waziristan agency near Tanai vill. 28. VII – 12. VIII. 2005, 1500 – 2500 m. Leg. Gurko’; 1 specimen [Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Germany]: ‘ ISRAEL (North distr.) Upper Galilee N. sea shore of Sea of Galilee Klar Nakhum (Capenaum) ~ 200 m 32 ° 53.011 N / 035 ° 34.707 ’’ E (shore with stones and gravel) 22. IV. 2006 D. W. Wrase (4) ’ // ‘ LEPTALEUS chaudoiri (Kolen.) det. D. Telnov’, 2014; 1 specimen [Daugavpils University Beetle Collection, Daugavpils, Latvia]: ‘ N INDIA, Uttarakhand, left side of Kosi River, 5 km N Ramnagar, N 29 * 432, E 79 * 140, 7 – 11.06.2011, A. Anichtchenko & A. Shavrin’ // ‘ LEPTALEUS chaudoiri (Kolen.) det. D. Telnov, 2018 ’; 2 specimens [one each in the private collections A. Gontarenko & S. Blinstein, label text translated from Russian]: [Russia] ‘ Krasnodar Krai, Lazarevskoye distr., Soloniki env., leg. A. V. Gontarenko, 2.06.017 ’ // ‘ under stones near river’ // ‘ Leptaleus chaudoiri Kolenati 1846, S. Blinstein det., 2021 ’; 5 specimens [3 specimens Naturkundemuseum Erfurt & 2 private collection D. Telnov]: N 30 ° 58 ’ 25.8 ” E 035 ° 38 ’ 22.5 ” Jordanien, Afra, N at­Tafila, Bachschlucht (hot springs) 07.05.2010 251 m üNN JD 07 leg.: SCHNITTER / SCHELLHORN’ // ‘ LEPTALEUS chaudoiri (Kolen.) det. D. Telnov, 2021 ’; 1 specimen [privatecollectionA. Degiovanni]: ‘ PAKISTAN: Islamabad sect. 7, 33 ° 43 ’ N 73 ° 03 ’ E, 600 m, 1 – 15. IX. 2012 leg. G. Sabatinelli’.	en	Blinstein, Semen J., Telnov, Dmitry, Degiovanni, Augusto, Gontarenko, Andrey V. (2023): New Data On Distribution Of Two Palaearctic Leptaleus Laferté-Sénectère, 1849 (Coleoptera: Anthicidae) Species With New Records And A Correction. Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 23 (1): 103-107, DOI: 10.59893/abud.23(1).008, URL: https://du.lv/en/research/institutes/institute-of-life-sciences-and-technologies/issued-journal/acta-biologica-universitatis-daugavpiliensis/acta-biologica-universitatis-daugavpiliensis-archives/acta-biologica-universitatis-daugavpiliensis-volume-23-no-1-2023/new-data-on-distribution-of-two-palaearctic-leptaleus-laferte-senectere-1849-coleoptera-anthicidae-species-with-new-records-and-a-correction/
073587F8E26E0D1BFC72D625040A612F.taxon	discussion	DISCUSSION Leptaleus chaudoiri was subsequently reported from the following countries: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan (politically Karabakh, the type locality, also belongs to Azerbaijan), Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Georgia (= Sakartvelo), Greece, India (Sikkim), Iran, Lebanon, Nepal, Syria, Turkmenistan, Turkey, former Yugoslavia (all as in Telnov 2020), Serbia (Uhmann et al. 2005). Telnov & Ghahari (2018) mentioned Mauritania in the general distribution of L. chaudoiri followed by Telnov (2020). Though no published record of this species from the African continent exists, but its occurrence in Egypt including Sinai Peninsula is likely. Additional data on the collecting localities of the specimens of L. chaudoiri are provided by LaFerté­Sénectère (1849 a, b) based on the material from the collection Chaudoir: Georgia (town ofAkhaltsikhe and Samegrelo­Zemo Svaneti (former Mingrelia) Region), “ Persian provinces ” [of the Russian Empire]. Schneider & Leder (1878) reported L. chaudoiri from Central Georgia (Surami) and Богачев (Bogachev 1934) – from saline marshes and sides of saline lakes in Azerbaijan (Puta; Sumquait). All exactly known localities of this species in Transcaucasia are from up to 100 m elevation but the record from “ Karabakh ” is likely from higher elevation. Surprisingly, Leptaleus chaudoiri has not yet been reported from Armenia, a country adjacent to Karabakh region. The distribution chorotype of this species appears close to the Saharo­Turano­Sindian 5.10 STS type (Vigna Taglianti et al. 1999, Telnov & Ghahari 2018) but also includes Caucasus and Central Asia. Occurrence of L. chaudoiri in Israel, Jordan and Pakistan was expected considering the general distribution of this species. The record from the Black Sea coast north of Sochi in Russian Fore­Caucasus appears, in turn, highly interesting illustrating the presence of a suitable ecological migration corridor for small­sized Coleoptera from arid Transcaucasia towards the precipitation­rich eastern coast of Black Sea along this coast. In Russia, the beetles were sampled at River Tsuskhvandzh [Цусхвандж in Russian transcription] mouth, from under stones at sunexposed, well­heated sandy­pebble bank at about 3 m above sea level. Five Leptaleus species, namely L. arabs (Marseul, 1879), L. glabellus (Truqui, 1855), L. klugii klugii (LaFerté­Sénectère, 1849), L. maximicollis Pic, 1893, and L. triguttatus (LaFerté­Sénectère, 1849), were hitherto known from Israel (Telnov 2020). Leptaleus chaudoiri readily different from them in the combination of the elytral pattern, the slender body, and the shape and structure of the male aedeagus. Leptaleus glabellus (Truqui, 1855) was hitherto the only species of its genus reported from Jordan (see Telnov 2020 for the general distribution). Leptaleus chaudoiri is different in the slenderer body, the dorsally flattened, on basal part strongly punctured elytra, the elongate head with a fine notch at its base. The genus Leptaleus has not yet been recorded for Pakistan and the present record represents both a new genus and species for the country.	en	Blinstein, Semen J., Telnov, Dmitry, Degiovanni, Augusto, Gontarenko, Andrey V. (2023): New Data On Distribution Of Two Palaearctic Leptaleus Laferté-Sénectère, 1849 (Coleoptera: Anthicidae) Species With New Records And A Correction. Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 23 (1): 103-107, DOI: 10.59893/abud.23(1).008, URL: https://du.lv/en/research/institutes/institute-of-life-sciences-and-technologies/issued-journal/acta-biologica-universitatis-daugavpiliensis/acta-biologica-universitatis-daugavpiliensis-archives/acta-biologica-universitatis-daugavpiliensis-volume-23-no-1-2023/new-data-on-distribution-of-two-palaearctic-leptaleus-laferte-senectere-1849-coleoptera-anthicidae-species-with-new-records-and-a-correction/
