Blaps caraboides caraboides Allard, 1882

Chigray, Ivan & Ivanov, Alexander, 2020, A Review Of The Genus Blaps (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) Of Central And South Kazakhstan With Description Of Two New Species, Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 66 (2), pp. 111-162 : 113-114

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.17109/AZH.66.2.111.2020
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scientific name	Blaps caraboides caraboides Allard, 1882
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Allard, 1882: 135; Seidlitz, 1893: 294; Skopin, 1960: 50 (larva); Skopin, 1961: 189 .

Material examined (ZIN). 1 m, ‘ Southeast Kazakhstan / around Issyk Lake / vii. 1958 / leg. N.G. Skopin’ [in Cyrillics] ; 1 m, ‘ Kazakhstan / southeast side of Ketmen Range / 20 km north of Sarynaz / h = 2000 / arid recess near crag / 3.vi.1986. / leg. L. Egorov’ [in Cyrillics] ; 1 f, ‘ Kazakhstan / Alma-Ata / Big Almaty Lake / 21.vii.1958 / leg. N.G. Skopin’ [in Cyrillics] .

Distribution. Kazakhstan, China (Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Xinjiang, Xizang provinces), Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan ( LÖBL et al. 2008). Regional distribution. Southeast Kazakhstan and adjacent territories of Kyrgyzstan (Central Tian Shan) ( SKOPIN 1961 ).

Blaps caraboides intermittens Kaszab, 1962

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Kaszab, 1962: 313; Skopin, 1961: 189 .

Type material examined ( ZIN). Paratypes: 6 mm, ‘ Southeast Kazakhstan / Dzungarian Alatau / Malyy Baskan River / 10.vi.1953 / leg. N. Balabas’ [in Cyrillics] .

Material examined ( ZIN). 2 mm, ‘ Southeast Kazakhstan / Dzungarian Alatau / Malyy Baskan River / 25 km east of Pokatilovka village / 18.vi.1968 / leg. G. Bugaev’ [in Cyrillics] [45°23’22.90”N, 80°8’25.18”E] GoogleMaps .

Comments. The subspecies was formally described by Kaszab (1962), but a year before, SKOPIN (1961) already indicated, without giving a name, that Kaszab considered the populations of the Dzhungarian Alatau as a separate subspecies.

Distribution. Kazakhstan: to the northeast of Ili River, spruce groves in

Dzungarian Alatau ( SKOPIN 1961 , KASZAB 1962).