Colposcelis (Turcmenicola) selevini Skopin, 1951

Bekchanov, Norbek Kh., Nabozhenko, Maxim V. & Bekchanova, Mokhira Kh., 2023, Review of the subgenus Turcmenicola Bogatchev, 1952, the genus Colposcelis Dejean, 1834 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Tentyriini), Zootaxa 5375 (4), pp. 550-564 : 557

Colposcelis (Turcmenicola) selevini Skopin, 1951

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Skopin 1951: 124 ( Colposcelis ( Scelocolpis )); Skopin 1961b: 175 ( Colposcelis ( Scelocolpis )); Medvedev 1970: 405 ( Colposcelis ( Turcmenicola )).

Type material (studied). Paratypes (from the type locality), 2♂♂ ( ZIN): “Yu. Kazakhstan Betpak Dala, CholakEspe” ( Cyrillic , light blue, handwritten by N.G. Skopin), “ 7.06.1936 V. Selevin ” (Cyrillic, light blue, handwritten by N.G. Skopin), “coll. N. Skopin ” (white, printed), “Paratypus Colposcelis Selevini 1948 N. Skopin ” (red, handwritten by N.G. Skopin) .

Material. 1♂, 2♀♀ ( ZIN): Kazakhstan, Karasu River 300 km S Dzhezkazgan, 18.v.1970 (leg. N.G. Skopin) ; 2♀♀ ( ZIN): Kazakhstan, the city of Balkhash , 23.ix.1971 (leg. N.G. Skopin) .

Distribution and bionomics. The species is distributed in the Betpak-Dala desert in Central Kazakhstan east to Balkhach Lake. Beetles occur in clay desert with Anabasis and Artemisia ( Skopin 1951, 1961b).

Figures

FIGURE 5. Colposcelis selevini, habitus, details of structure and labels. A = paratype, habitus, ♂, dorsally; B = habitus, ♀ (Kazakhastan: Balkhash city); C = habitus, ♀ (Kazakhstan: S of Zhezkazgan), ventrally; D = ditto, ♂, dorsally; E = head and pronotum, paratype (♂), dorsally; F = labels of paratype.

FIGURE 6. Colposcelis selevini, male, details of structure. A = protibia dorsally; B = ditto, from the extensor side; C = aedeagus; D = spiculum gastrale; E = inner sternite VIII.