Staphylinus (Platydracus) demissus Müller, 1925: 42

Khilkovich, A. K. & Shabalin, S. A., 2023, REVIEW OF THE GENUS PLATYDRACUS (COLEOPTERA: STAPHYLINIDAE) FROM THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST, Far Eastern Entomologist 489, pp. 8-15 : 11-12

Staphylinus (Platydracus) demissus Müller, 1925: 42 . Type locality: “ Siberia orientale

(Sotka Gora)” [ Russia (probably Jewish autonomous region, vicinity of Radde]. Staphylinus (Platydracus) demissus : Smetana, 1967: 209; Tikhomirova, 1973: 187. Staphylinus demissus : Scheerpeltz, 1933: 1384; Kryzhanovsky et al., 1973: 150. Platydracus (Platydracus) demissus : Smetana & Davies, 2000: 39; Smetana, 2004: 681;

Schülke & Smetana, 2015: 1097. Platydracus demissus : Herman, 2001: 3449.

MATERIAL. Primorskii krai: Vladivostok, 14.VII 1971, 1 specimen, L.D. Filatova [BC]; Novolitovsk, 19–21.VIII 2015, 4 specimens, S.A. Shabalin, E. Poletkov [BC]; same locality, 21–24.VIII 2015, 5 specimens, S.A. Shabalin, pitfall traps [BC]; same locality, 22–24.VIII 2015, 1 specimens, S.A. Shabalin, pitfall traps [BC]; Amurskaya oblast : Khinganskii Reserve, 4.IX 2003, 1 specimen, E. Ignatenko [BC] .

DISTRIBUTION. Russia: Primorskii krai, Jewish Autonomous oblast, Amurskaya oblast (first record). – Mongolia.