Blaps holconota Fischer von Waldheim, 1844

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 : 131-132

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scientific name	Blaps holconota Fischer von Waldheim, 1844
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Fischer von Waldheim, 1844: 71 (Desertis Kirgisorum); Skopin, 1960: 57 (larva); Skopin, 1961: 192 ; Skopin, 1968: 86 ; Arnoldi & Medvedev, 1969: 403; Medvedev & Nepesova, 1985: 119 ( Blaps scutellata ); Chigray et al., 2016: 9.

Material examined ( ZIN). 2 mm, ‘ Southeast Kazakhstan / Jambyl Region / Moyynkum village / 20.vii.1960 / leg. L. Serkova’ [in Cyrillics] [44°15’51.05” N, 72°55’15.69”E]; 1 m, ‘Southeast Kazakhstan / Jambyl Region / Muyunkum village / 22.iv.1954 / leg. L. Serkova’ [in Cyrillics] [44°15’51.05”N, 72°55’15.69”E]; 1 m, 1 f, ‘Southeast Kazakhstan / Alma-Ata Region / 40 km south-west of Zharkent city / 26.iv.1965 / leg. N.G. Skopin’ [in Cyrillics] [43°54’33.36”N, 79°38’30.23”E]; 1 m, ‘Southeast Kazakhstan / Alma-Ata Region / Sasykbulak spring / Ulken-Bugutty mountains / 29.vi.1960 / leg. N. Skopin’ [in Cyrillics] [43°32’25.36”N, 79°4’15.09”E]; 1 f, ‘Southeast Kazakhstan / Alma-Ata Region / Kokishbay village / lower course of Ili River / Rondy duct / 16.ix.1948 / leg. D.Aleksandrov’ [in Cyrillics] [44°58’42.14”N, 75°33’42.53”E]; 1 f, ‘Southeast Kazakhstan / Alma-Ata Region / Saryyesik- Atyrau sands / 12.x.1953 / leg. V. Chekalin’ [in Cyrillics] [45°30’44.27”N, 77°1’55.41”E]; 1 f, Southeast Kazakhstan / Alma-Ata Region / Sarybulak village / 06.vii.1907 / leg. A. Jakobson’ [in Cyrillics] [43°14’57.69”N, 74°17’35.90”E]; 1 m, ‘ Southeast Kazakhstan / Semirechye Region / Dzharkentskiy uyezd / Ili River / 18.iv.1906 / leg. V. Ryunbeyl’ [in Cyrillics]; 1 m, 3 ff, ‘ Semirechye province . / Galford Mountain pass’ [in Cyrillics] GoogleMaps .

Comments. ARNOLDI and MEDVEDEV (1969) distinguished two species: Blaps holconota and Blaps scutellata Fischer von Waldheim, 1844 . These names are listed in the catalogue of LÖBL et al. (2008) as concerning different species, but the authors of this paper use the name Blaps holconota because didn’t find distinct differences between these two taxa (CHIGRAY et al. 2016: 9).

Distribution. Northern and Southern Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan ( SKOPIN 1961 , ARNOLDI & MEDVEDEV 1969, LÖBL et al. 2008). Regional distribution. Desert areas of South Kazakhstan ( SKOPIN 1961 , ARNOLDI & MEDVEDEV 1969).