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03FB243DFFE4FFD6FF70FF164706434A.text	03FB243DFFE4FFD6FF70FF164706434A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Podistra Motschulsky 1839	<div><p>Genus Podistra Motschulsky, 1839</p><p>Podistra Motschulsky, 1839: 70 .</p><p>Type species: Podistra alpina Motschulsky, 1839 (by monotypy).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FB243DFFE4FFD6FF70FF164706434A	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Kazantsev, Sergey V.	Kazantsev, Sergey V. (2025): A review of Podistra subgen. Hemipodistra Ganglbauer, 1922 (Coleoptera: Cantharidae), with description of a new species from the Caucasus. Zootaxa 5660 (3): 351-370, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.3.3, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.3.3
03FB243DFFE4FFD7FF70FDA64025463B.text	03FB243DFFE4FFD7FF70FDA64025463B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Podistra (Hemipodistra) birnbacheri (Krauss 1894)	<div><p>Podistra (Hemipodistra) birnbacheri (Krauss, 1894)</p><p>(Figs 1A, 5A–5C, 5G).</p><p>Absidia birnbacheri Krauss, 1894: 180 .</p><p>Absidia saxicola Krauss, 1894: 181 (synonymy by Ganglbauer, 1922).</p><p>Material. 2 ♂♂, ‘Ganglb., Obir.’, ‘ Absid. birnbacheri Krauss, Ganglbauer 1905 ’ (ICM) .</p><p>Redescription. Male. Dark brown; head from reddish brown to dark brown; elytra from light brown to dark brown; clypeus testaceous (Fig. 1A).</p><p>Head transverse, slightly more narrow than pronotum, slightly narrowed posteriorly. Eyes small, semi-spherical, interocular distance ca. 2.1 times greater than eye diameter.Vertex with dense, moderately coarse punctation.Ultimate maxillary and labial palpomeres subequal in size and shape, gradually widening to middle and tapering distally, ca. 1.4 times longer than wide. Antennae filiform, attaining to elytral two thirds and gradually narrowing distally, antennomere 3 the widest, only ca. 1.5 times longer than wide; pedicel ca. 1.8 times shorter than antennomere 3; antennomere 4 ca. 1.3 times longer than antennomere 3; antennal pubescence on antennomeres 3–11 dense and decumbent (Fig. 1A).</p><p>Pronotum transverse, ca. 1.2 wider than long, noticeably more narrow than elytra at humeri, widest at posterior margin, narrowing and almost truncate anteriorly and slightly incised before posterior angles, with blunt posterior and anterior angles; lateral bordering complete; punctation fine and scarce; pubescence scarce, long and erect. Scutellum elongate, almost parallel-sided, rounded at apex (Fig. 1A).</p><p>Elytra long, completely covering abdomen, ca. 2.8 times longer than wide at humeri, slightly tapering distally, rugulose; elytral pubescence uniform, relatively long and erect (Fig. 1A).</p><p>Legs long; femurs robust, tibiae slightly curved and narrow; tarsi long, metatarsomere length ratio 2: 1.4: 1: 1: 1.5; tarsomeres 1–3 narrow, tarsomere 4 deeply cut, widened; all claws simple (Fig. 1A).</p><p>Aedeagus elongate, slightly narrowing distally, with elongate, slightly inwardly inclined parameres, not surpassing dorsal plate in length; laterophyses gradually narrowed distally, rounded at apex; in dorsal view, 2.5 times more narrow than dorsal plate at its infuscated transverse line; inner side of dorsal plate, in apical view, straight; phallobase semi-circular (Figs 5A–5C, 5G).</p><p>Female. Similar to male, but body larger and wider, head not narrowed posteriorly, almost parallel-sided, antennae considerably more narrow and shorter, elytra only 2–2.5 times longer than pronotum, at suture separate, only at their apices approximate, legs shorter and slenderer (Krauss, 1894; Ganglbauer, 1922).</p><p>Length: 5.5–8.0 mm; width at humeri: 1.7–1.8 mm (males) (also Krauss, 1894).</p><p>Distribution. Podistra (H.) birnbacheri is distributed in the Alpine zone of Southeastern Alps (Austria: Steiner Alps, Karawanken, Dobratsch; Italy / Slovenia: Julian Alps) (Ganglbauer, 1922).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FB243DFFE4FFD7FF70FDA64025463B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Kazantsev, Sergey V.	Kazantsev, Sergey V. (2025): A review of Podistra subgen. Hemipodistra Ganglbauer, 1922 (Coleoptera: Cantharidae), with description of a new species from the Caucasus. Zootaxa 5660 (3): 351-370, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.3.3, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.3.3
03FB243DFFE4FFD6FF70FEDE47144392.text	03FB243DFFE4FFD6FF70FEDE47144392.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Podistra (Hemipodistra) Ganglbauer 1922	<div><p>Subgenus Hemipodistra Ganglbauer, 1922</p><p>Hemipodistra Ganglbauer, 1922: 70 .</p><p>Type species: Absidia birnbacheri Krauss, 1894 (by monotypy).</p><p>Key to the species of Podistra subgen. Hemipodistra</p><p>1. Pronotal sides with complete bordering (Figs 1, 2)........................................................... 2</p><p>— Lateral pronotal bordering smoothed in posterior half (Figs 3, 4)............................................... 4</p><p>2. Male antennae narrower and longer; males alate, with fully developed elytra, completely covering the abdomen (Fig. 1A)................................................................................ birnbacheri (Krauss, 1894)</p><p>— Male antennae more robust and shorter; males apterous, with shortened elytra, leaving much of the abdomen exposed (Figs 1B, 2)................................................................................................. 3</p><p>3. Male pronotum transverse, ca. 1.3 times wider than long (Fig. 1B)...................... rupicola (Kiesenwetter, 1863)</p><p>— Male pronotum elongate (Fig. 2A)............................................... motschulskyi Kazantsev, 2001</p><p>4. Elytra oval, gradually narrowed towards apex and attaining to second tergite (Fig. 3). Laterophyses not narrowed proximally, distally incised; in dorsal view, ca. 1.5–1.6 times more narrow than dorsal plate at its infuscated transverse line and ca. 2.3 times wider than their incised apex, in apical view; dorsal plate with a single inner tooth at each side, in apical view (Figs 6A, 6D, 7B, 7C, 8B, 8C)................................................................. savitskiorum Kazantsev, 2001</p><p>— Elytra pear-shaped, abruptly narrowed in distal two thirds and attaining only to first tergite (Fig. 4). Laterophyses noticeably narrowed proximally, distally rounded; in dorsal view, only 1.3 times more narrow than dorsal plate at its infuscated transverse line and ca. 3.8 times wider than their incised apex, in apical view; dorsal plate with elongate dentate inner thickening at each side, in apical view (Figs 6E, 6F, 7D–7F, 8D–8F).............................................. lakorum sp. nov.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FB243DFFE4FFD6FF70FEDE47144392	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Kazantsev, Sergey V.	Kazantsev, Sergey V. (2025): A review of Podistra subgen. Hemipodistra Ganglbauer, 1922 (Coleoptera: Cantharidae), with description of a new species from the Caucasus. Zootaxa 5660 (3): 351-370, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.3.3, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.3.3
03FB243DFFE5FFD0FF70FB4E4044446B.text	03FB243DFFE5FFD0FF70FB4E4044446B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Podistra (Hemipodistra) lakorum Kazantsev et Savitsky 2025	<div><p>Podistra (Hemipodistra) lakorum Kazantsev et Savitsky sp. nov.</p><p>(Figs 4, 6E, 6F, 7D–7F, 8D–8F, 9E, 9F, 10B–10D, 11B, 11C).</p><p>Material. Holotype: ♂, [<a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=47.07611&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=41.947502" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 47.07611/lat 41.947502)">NE Caucasus</a>], Dagestan, N <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=47.07611&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=41.947502" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 47.07611/lat 41.947502)">slopes of Dyultydag Mt. Range</a>, 9 km S Burshi, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=47.07611&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=41.947502" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 47.07611/lat 41.947502)">right side of Artsalinekh Gorge</a>, 2950 m, 41°56’51”N 47°04’34”E, 10.VI.2023, V.Yu. Savitsky leg. (ZMMU) . Paratypes: 7 ♂♂ and 10 ♀♀, collected with holotype (5 ♂♂ and 7 ♀♀, ZMMU, and 2 ♂♂ and 3 ♀♀, ICM). [5 ♂♂ (including holotype) and 4 ♀♀ are glued on rectangular transparent plastic or cardboard plates; 3 ♂♂ and 5 ♀♀ are stored in tubes with 70% alcohol (including 3 ♂♂ and 1 ♀ with remainder of pupa exuviae)] .</p><p>Description. Male. Dark brown; elytra, except at humeri, femurs proximally and tibiae distally light brown (Fig. 4A).</p><p>Head transverse, about as wide as pronotum, slightly narrowed posteriorly. Eyes small, semi-spherical, interocular distance ca. 2.5 times greater than eye longitudinal diameter. Vertex with dense, moderately coarse punctation. Ultimate maxillary and labial palpomeres subequal in size and shape, gradually widening towards the middle and tapering distally, ca. 1.8 times longer than wide. Antennae filiform, relatively short, not quite attaining to the middle coxae; pedicel ca. 1.3 times shorter than antennomere 3; antennomere 4 somewhat narrower and ca. 1.1 times longer than antennomere 3; antennal pubescence on antennomeres 3–11 dense and decumbent (Fig. 4A).</p><p>Pronotum subquadrate, widest at anterior margin, almost truncate anteriorly; with nearly straight sides, blunt posterior and anterior angles; lateral bordering incomplete, noticeably less conspicuous near hind angles; punctation fine and sparse; pubescence long and erect. Scutellum transverse, trapezoidal, rounded at apex (Fig. 4A).</p><p>Elytra short, only ca. 1.2 times longer than wide at humeri, each pear-shaped, abruptly narrowing from proximal third, with indistinct rugosity; elytral pubescence uniform, with relatively long erect or sub-erect hairs (Fig. 4A).</p><p>Legs relatively long; femurs robust, tibiae narrow and noticeably curved proximally; tarsi long, metatarsomere length ratio 4.5: 2.2: 1.7: 1: 2.7; all tarsomeres 1–3 narrow, tarsomere 4 deeply cut, widened; all claws simple (Fig. 4A).</p><p>Aedeagus elongate, slightly narrowing distally, with elongate, slightly inwardly inclined parameres, not much surpassing dorsal plate in length; laterophyses noticeably narrowed proximally, distally rounded; in dorsal view, only 1.3 times narrower than dorsal plate at its infuscated transverse line and ca. 3.8 times wider than their incised apex, in apical view; dorsal plate with elongate dented inner thickening at each side, in apical view; phallobase with wide semi-circular proximal emargination medially (Figs 6E, 6F, 7D–7F, 8D–8F).</p><p>Female. Similar to male, but eyes smaller, interocular distance ca. 3 times greater than eye diameter, antennae shorter, attaining only to posterior pronotal margin (Fig. 4B).</p><p>Ultimate ventrite (sternite 8) with relatively broadly separated paired median distal projections (Figs 9E, 9F).</p><p>External genitalia with small, narrowed distally styli, relatively short tubular coxites, ca. 2.5 times longer than styli, and long, narrow, outwardly bent in the middle valvifers, proximally connected to transverse bisinuate proximal apodemes of paraproct; paraproct distally trapezoidal, medially incised, laterally distinctly convex before the swollen distal portion; internal genitalia (genital tract, studied in five specimens) with massive elongate vagina, transverse copulatory purse (bursa copulatrix), separated from vagina by distinct constriction and considerably shorter than vagina, long spiral spermatheca, elongate narrow accessary gland with an oval bump at base, and long, semi-spiral diverticulus; spermatheca and diverticulus proximally noticeably wider than distally; duct of spermathecal gland well developed, but much shorter than spermatheca (Figs 10B–10D, 11B, 11C).</p><p>Length: 6.5–9.8 mm (males) and 9.0– 12.5 mm (females); width at humeri: 1.2–1.8 mm.</p><p>Diagnosis. Podistra (H.) lakorum sp. nov. may be distinguished from P. (H.) motschulskyi and P. (H.) savitskiorum — both also living in the alpine zone of Dagestan mountains — by the pear-shaped elytra, abruptly narrowed in distal two thirds (Fig. 4), and by the narrowed proximally and broader (only 1.3 times narrower than dorsal plate at the infuscated transverse line) laterophyses (Figs 6E, 6F, 7D–7F, 8D–8F), vs not narrowed proximally and 1.5–1.6 times more narrow than dorsal plate at the infuscated transverse laterophyses in P. (H.) motschulskyi and P. (H.) savitskiorum . The female of P. (H.) lakorum sp. nov. may be differentiated from the similar P. (H.) savitskiorum by the relatively small and broadly separated paired median distal projections on the distal margin of sternite 8 (Figs 9E, 9F) (closer and larger in savitskiorum). The new species is also readily separable from P. (H.) birnbacheri and P. (H.) rupicola, from the Alps, by the incomplete lateral bordering of the pronotum and the distinctly shorter elytra (Fig. 4).</p><p>Etymology. The name of the new species is derived from the Laks, an ethnic group inhabiting the area around the village Burshi, where the type series was collected.</p><p>Variation. Some of the paratypes have yellowish brown spots in the anterior half of pronotum and lighter tibiae (e.g., Fig. 4B). One female paratype has approximate paired median distal projections on the distal margin of ventrite 8, almost as in P. (H.) savitskiorum .</p><p>Biology. All specimens were collected in the alpine zone under relatively large stones in the more levelled moderately wet area (Fig. 12, B). On June, 10 three imagines and about 20 additional specimens at pupal stage were collected. These pupas, together with soil and debris from under the stones were put in tubes with holes for ventilation. Until June, 16 they were kept mostly at about 2,000 m a.s.l., later brought down to the lower altitude. Molting into imago started on June, 14, and by June, 18 most of the survived specimens had molted into imagos. Several pupas that had been damaged during the collecting died of drying out or rotting.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FB243DFFE5FFD0FF70FB4E4044446B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Kazantsev, Sergey V.	Kazantsev, Sergey V. (2025): A review of Podistra subgen. Hemipodistra Ganglbauer, 1922 (Coleoptera: Cantharidae), with description of a new species from the Caucasus. Zootaxa 5660 (3): 351-370, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.3.3, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.3.3
03FB243DFFE2FFD2FF70F9FE411940EE.text	03FB243DFFE2FFD2FF70F9FE411940EE.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Podistra (Hemipodistra) motschulskyi Kazantsev 2001	<div><p>Podistra (Hemipodistra) motschulskyi Kazantsev, 2001</p><p>(Figs 2, 6B, 6C, 7A, 8A, 9A, 9B, 11E).</p><p>Podistra (Hemipodistra) motschulskyi Kazantsev, 2001: 1079 .</p><p>Type material. Holotype, ♂, ‘ Russia, W Daghestan, Bogoss Ridge, Addala Mt., 2800–3100 m, 3.VIII.1997, A. Gusakov leg.’ (ZMMU); paratypes, 2 ♀♀, same label (ZMMU and ICM).</p><p>Redescription. Male. Dark brown to black; clypeus and labrum distally, as well palps and knees testaceous (Fig. 2A).</p><p>Head slightly wider than pronotum, slightly narrowed posteriorly, glabrous, behind eyes convex, roughly rugulose. Eyes small, somewhat flattened, interocular distance ca. 2 times greater than eye diameter. Clypeus transverse, weakly triangularly convex. Vertex with dense, coarse punctation. Ultimate maxillary and labial palpomeres subequal in size and shape, gradually widening to middle and tapering distally, ca. 2.5 times longer than wide. Antennae filiform, relatively short, not quite attaining to hind coxae; pedicel ca. 1.6 times shorter than antennomere 3; antennomere 4 somewhat narrower and ca. 1.3 times longer than antennomere 3; antennal pubescence on antennomeres 3–11 dense and semi-erect (Fig. 2A).</p><p>Pronotum subquadrate, slightly longer than wide, widest behind the middle, almost straight, only slightly convex at sides, with weakly convex anterior and straight posterior margins, rounded anterior and blunt posterior angles; lateral bordering complete; punctation fine and scarce; pubescence long and erect. Scutellum triangular, rounded at apex, with median impression (Fig. 2A).</p><p>Elytra relatively short, ca. 1.6 times longer than pronotum and ca. 1.6 times longer than wide at humeri, leaving most of the abdomen uncovered, separate from scutellar area, each tapering distally and rounded at apex, roughly granulose, without traces of longitudinal costae; elytral pubescence uniform, long and erect (Fig. 2A).</p><p>Legs relatively long; femurs robust, tibiae weakly proximally curved and narrow; tarsi long, metatarsomere length ratio 1.7: 1.1: 1: 0.9: 1.5; tarsomeres 1–3 narrow, tarsomere 4 deeply cut, widened; all claws simple (Fig. 2A).</p><p>Aedeagus elongate, slightly narrowing distally, with elongate, distally narrowed and slightly inwardly inclined parameres, not much surpassing dorsal plate in length; laterophyses almost straight at sides and abruptly narrowed and rounded distally; in ventro-dorsal view, ca. 1.5 times more narrow than dorsal plate at its infuscated transverse line; dorsal plate, in apical view, with median denticle and a pair of roundish lateral bulbs (Figs 6B, 6C, 7A, 8A).</p><p>Female. Similar to male, but eyes less convex, antennae shorter, attaining only to front coxae (Fig. 2B). Ultimate ventrite (sternite 8) distally with approximate paired median distal projections and deep emargination between them (Figs 9A, 9B). Genital tract structure (studied in 2 females) as in P. (H.) lakorum sp. nov., but with duct of spermathecal gland relatively longer (Fig. 11E).</p><p>Length: 7.7 mm (male) and 9.0– 9.5 mm (females); width at humeri: 1.1 mm (male) and 1.8–2.0 mm (females).</p><p>Distribution. The species lived in the alpine zone of the Northeastern Caucasus (western Dagestan: Addala Mt.) at 2,800 –3,100 m (Fig. 12A). Only three (all typical) specimens of P. (H.) motschulskyi are known.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FB243DFFE2FFD2FF70F9FE411940EE	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Kazantsev, Sergey V.	Kazantsev, Sergey V. (2025): A review of Podistra subgen. Hemipodistra Ganglbauer, 1922 (Coleoptera: Cantharidae), with description of a new species from the Caucasus. Zootaxa 5660 (3): 351-370, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.3.3, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.3.3
03FB243DFFE0FFD2FF70FD7A4771452D.text	03FB243DFFE0FFD2FF70FD7A4771452D.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Podistra (Hemipodistra) rupicola (Kiesenwetter 1863)	<div><p>Podistra (Hemipodistra) rupicola (Kiesenwetter, 1863)</p><p>(Figs 1B, 5D–5F, 5H).</p><p>Absidia rupicola Kiesenwetter, 1863: 729 .</p><p>Material. 6 ♂♂, ‘Ganglb., Dobratsch.’ (ICM) .</p><p>Redescription. Male. Dark brown to light brown; clypeus testaceous (Fig. 1B).</p><p>Head transverse, about as wide as pronotum. Eyes small, semi-spherical, interocular distance ca. 2.25 times greater than eye diameter. Vertex with dense, moderately coarse punctation. Ultimate maxillary and labial palpomeres subequal in size and shape, gradually widening to middle and tapering distally, ca. 2.2 times longer than wide. Antennae filiform, moderately long, attaining to middle coxae; pedicel ca. 2 times shorter than antennomere 3; antennomere 4 somewhat narrower and ca. 1.3 times longer than antennomere 3; antennal pubescence on antennomeres 3–11 dense, relatively short and erect (Fig. 1B).</p><p>Pronotum almost quadrate, only ca. 1.1 times wider than long, widest in the middle, almost truncate anteriorly; lateral bordering complete; surface almost glabrous, with scarce fine punctation; pubescence relatively long and erect. Scutellum elongate, trapezoidal, rounded at apex (Fig. 1B).</p><p>Elytra about as wide as pronotum, relatively short, 1.5–2.5 times longer than pronotum and ca. 1.7 times longer than wide at humeri, roughly rugulose; elytral pubescence uniform, with relatively long erect or sub-erect hairs (Fig. 1B).</p><p>Legs relatively long; femurs robust, tibiae slightly curved and narrow; tarsi long, metatarsomere length ratio 1.9: 1.2: 1: 0.8: 1.3; tarsomeres 1–3 narrow, tarsomere 4 deeply cut, widened; all claws simple (Fig. 1B).</p><p>Aedeagus elongate, noticeably narrowing distally, with elongate, straight, slightly widened distally parameres, not surpassing dorsal plate in length; laterophyses narrowed distally, slightly constricted near and rounded at apex; in dorsal view, ca. 3 times more narrow than dorsal plate at its infuscated transverse line; inner side of dorsal plate, in apical view, bisinuate (Figs 5D–5F, 5H).</p><p>Female. Similar to male, but elytra only slightly longer than pronotum, separate at suture, from scutellum to apices, legs shorter (Ganglbauer, 1922).</p><p>Length: 4.0– 6.5 mm (males) and 6.5–8.0 mm (females, Ganglbauer, 1922); width at humeri: 1.1–1.2 mm (males).</p><p>Distribution. The range of Podistra (H.) rupicola includes the alpine zone of the Southeastern Alps (Austria: Steiner Alps, Karawanken, Dobratsch; Italy / Slovenia: Julian Alps) and the Carpathian Mountains (Romania). Imagos are active in the first half of July (Ganglbauer, 1922).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FB243DFFE0FFD2FF70FD7A4771452D	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Kazantsev, Sergey V.	Kazantsev, Sergey V. (2025): A review of Podistra subgen. Hemipodistra Ganglbauer, 1922 (Coleoptera: Cantharidae), with description of a new species from the Caucasus. Zootaxa 5660 (3): 351-370, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.3.3, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.3.3
03FB243DFFE1FFD8FF70FF174744447A.text	03FB243DFFE1FFD8FF70FF174744447A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Podistra (Hemipodistra) savitskiorum Kazantsev 2001	<div><p>Podistra (Hemipodistra) savitskiorum Kazantsev, 2001</p><p>(Figs 3, 6A, 6D, 7B, 7C, 8B, 8C, 9C, 9D, 10A, 11A, 11D).</p><p>Podistra (Hemipodistra) savitskiorum Kazantsev, 2001: 1080 .</p><p>Type material. Holotype, ♂, ‘ Russia, W Daghestan, S Akhty, SW slopes of Shalbuzdag Mt., 3000–3300 m, 9.VII.1994, M. &amp; V. Savitsky leg.’ (ZMMU); paratypes, 6 ♂♂ and 8 ♀♀, same label (ZMMU and ICM).</p><p>Additional material. ♂, ‘ Rus., E Caucasus, Daghestan, NW slopes of Shalbuzdag Mt., 3000 m, 14.VII.2007, E. V. Iljina leg.’ (ICM); 4 ♂♂ and ♀, ‘ E Caucasus, Dagestan, [NW] <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=47.808887&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=40.35583" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 47.808887/lat 40.35583)">Shalbuzdag Mt.</a>, 3000 m, 40°21’21”N 47°48’32”E, 9–11. VI.2021, M. Nabozhenko &amp; I. Chigrai leg.’ (ICM).</p><p>Redescription. Male. Dark brown to light brown (Fig. 3A).</p><p>Head transverse, about as wide as pronotum, slightly narrowed posteriorly. Eyes small, flattened, interocular distance ca. 1.9 times greater than eye diameter. Vertex with sparse punctation. Ultimate maxillary and labial palpomeres subequal in size and shape, gradually widening to middle and tapering distally, ca. 1.5 times longer than wide.Antennae filiform, relatively short, reaching over middle coxae; pedicel ca. 1.6 times shorter than antennomere 3; antennomere 4 somewhat narrower and ca. 1.2 times longer than antennomere 3; antennal pubescence on antennomeres 3–11 dense and semi-erect (Fig. 3A).</p><p>Pronotum subquadrate, slightly wider than long, widest at anterior margin, slightly narrowing and almost truncate anteriorly; with nearly straight sides, blunt posterior and anterior angles; lateral bordering incomplete, noticeably less conspicuous near hind angles; punctation fine and scarce; pubescence long and erect. Scutellum about as long as wide, trapezoidal, rounded at apex (Fig. 3A).</p><p>Elytra short, ca. 1.3 times longer than wide at humeri, separate from scutellar area, gradually narrowed towards apex and attaining to tergite 2, roughly rugulose; elytral pubescence uniform, with relatively long erect hairs (Fig. 3A).</p><p>Legs relatively long; femurs robust, tibiae slightly curved and narrow; tarsi long, metatarsomere length ratio 3: 1.5: 1.3: 1: 2; tarsomeres 1–3 narrow, tarsomere 4 deeply cut, widened; all claws simple (Fig. 3A).</p><p>Aedeagus elongate, slightly narrowing distally, with elongate, slightly inwardly inclined parameres, not much surpassing dorsal plate in length; laterophyses not narrowed proximally, distally incised; in dorsal view, ca. 1.5–1.6 times more narrow than dorsal plate at its infuscated transverse line and ca. 2.3 times wider than their incised apex, in apical view; dorsal plate with a single inner tooth at each side, in apical view (Figs 6A, 6D, 7B, 7C, 8B, 8C).</p><p>Female. Similar to male, but eyes smaller, antennae shorter, attaining only to front coxae, elytra conspicuously less rugulose, attaining only to the middle of tergite 1 (Fig. 3B).</p><p>External genitalia with small, narrowed distally styli, relatively short tubular coxites, subequal in length to coxites, and long, narrow, outwardly bent in the middle valvifers, proximally connected to transverse bisinuate proximal apodemes of paraproct (Figs 10A, 11A).</p><p>Ultimate ventrite (sternite 8) distally with approximate paired median distal projections and usually deep emargination between them (Figs 9C, 9D), rarely (in one of the studied females) this emargination is shallow. Genital tract structure (studied in 3 females) as in P. (H.) lakorum sp. nov., but with duct of spermathecal gland short, tuberculate, hence its connection with the gland almost coincides with its connection with the spermatheca (Figs 11A, 11D).</p><p>Length: 5.4–7.2 mm; width at humeri: 1.2–1.4 mm.</p><p>Distribution. Podistra (H.) savitskiorum occurs in the alpine zone of the Northeastern Caucasus (southeastern Dagestan: Shalbuzdag Mountain) at 3,000 –3,300 m.</p><p>Biology. All specimens of the type series of P. (H.) savitskiorum collected on the southwestern slopes of Shalbuzdag Mountain were found from under stones in approximately the same conditions as reported for P. (H.) lakorum sp. nov. All of the specimens of P. (H.) savitskiorum from the northern slopes of Shalbuzdag Mountain (Fig. 12C), on the other hand, were collected at night, actively moving on the surface of stones and rocky outcrops, some of them copulating (pers. comm. of Dr. M.V. Nabozhenko).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FB243DFFE1FFD8FF70FF174744447A	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Kazantsev, Sergey V.	Kazantsev, Sergey V. (2025): A review of Podistra subgen. Hemipodistra Ganglbauer, 1922 (Coleoptera: Cantharidae), with description of a new species from the Caucasus. Zootaxa 5660 (3): 351-370, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5660.3.3, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5660.3.3
