Apalochrus femoralis pallipes Motschulsky, 1860

Tshernyshev, Sergei E., Dudko, Roman Yu., Gurina, Anna A. & Legalov, Andrei A., 2021, First record of soft-winged flower beetles (Coleoptera, Malachiidae) in a late Pleistocene deposit from West Siberia with a review of known Quaternary data, Acta Biologica Sibirica 7, pp. 1-19 : 1

Apalochrus femoralis pallipes Motschulsky, 1860

Sub-fossil material.

Site Ustyanka-1 (2020), section I, sample 20 (depth 5.00- 5.06 m) - fragments No. 22 (right elytron) (Fig. 3c ) and No. 23 (left elytron) (Fig. 3b ).

Comparative material.

Neotype, male: Kazakhstan: Kokchetavskaya Oblast' : env. of Ruzaevka vill., 54°04'N, 44°52'E, sweeping in a field of wheat, 28.VI.1982, G. Sukacheva leg. (Fig. 3a ).

Fragment description.

Left elytron, black with green-blue metallic lustre, narrow, expanded and rounded posteriorly, densely and deeply punctured, suture entire, sizes: 0.44 mm at base near humerus, 0.77 mm at widest part near apices, 2.25 mm length; right elytron looks similar to the left, sizes: 0.45 mm at base near humerus, 0.73 mm at widest part near apices, 2.28 mm length.

Distribution.

Asia: Kazakhstan - Transcapian steppes, Kokchetavskaya, Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya Oblast’, Russia: South Urals - Orenburgskaya Oblast’, West Siberia - Tyumenskaya, Omskaya, Novosibirskaya Oblast’, Altaiskii Krai.

Habitat.

Cereal steppes and meadows of Inner Asia.

Notes.

For a detailed description of the subspecies see Tshernyshev 2016: 363-365, figs 3-4, 15-18, 19.

Figures

Figure 3. Apalochrus femoralis pallipes: a, general view of the neotype; b, c, sub-fossil fragments from the Ustyanka- 1.