Calyptopsis emarginata : Reitter, 1889: 28
Taxonomic review of the genus Calyptopsis of Turkey and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Tentyriini)
Chigray, Svetlana
Nabozhenko, Maxim
Keskin, Bekir
Abdurakhmanov, Gayirbeg
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2018
Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae
2018-08-29
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Reitter, 1889
: Reitter
1889
[251,660,606,630]
Insecta
Tenebrionidae
Calyptopsis
GBIF
Animalia
Coleoptera
4
335
Arthropoda
species
emarginata
( Figs 1D,E, 4C)
Calyptopsis emarginata: Reitter, 1889: 28(original description).
Typelocality. Azerbaijan, Baku. Type material. LECTOTYPE(designated by ABDURAKHMANOV & NABOZHENKO2011):♁, ‘Caucasus / Araxesthal / Leder, Reitter // Typus / Calyptopsis emarginataRtt. Coll. Reitter.’ ( HNHM). Additional material examined. ARMENIA: 1 spec.,‘nearArdanysh [now Artanish in Yerevan Province] / Gok. Eriv. [now Sevan Lake (Gokcha)]: 1 vii 02 [1902] / Elachich, Klemant’; 5 spec., ‘Gyuney [now Areguni] near Nadezh. NW Gokcha / 28 v 02 [1902] / Elachich, Klemant’; 12 spec., ‘mt near Khurkur-kaya [unknown to us] / Gokcha [now Sevan Lake] / 5 vii 902 / Elachich, Klemant; 22 spec., Gokcha [now Sevan Lake], slopes near Adtapa [unknown to us]. AZERBAIJAN: 2 spec., ‘Chagla-Dara Mt. near Kapudzhikh Mt. Nakh / Znoiko / 933 [1933]’. All specimens deposited in ZIN.
Distribution. Armenia, Azerbaijan(including Nakhichevan), Georgia, Iran( REITTER 1889, ABDURAKHMANOV & NABOZHENKO 2001, present paper).
Remarks.This species was recorded from Turkeyby FERRER & SOLDATI (1999)only, as they misinterpreted label ‘Kara Dagh ( Kurdistan) ( 2200 m), 6.VII.1983(Richter leg.)’. This specimen was collected by the famous Soviet-Russian entomologist Vera Andreevna Richter in the North Western Iran, East Azerbaijan Province, Arasbaran (or Karadag) mountain system with maximum altitude 2200 m. She never visited Turkey. On the other hand, Calyptopsis emarginatais widespread in Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Irannear the border with Turkeyand can be found in Iğdır Province. Bogatshev listed this species for Ararat (now Ağrı, Turkey) in his unpublished manuscript ‘ Tenebrionidaeof Azerbaijan’.