Epicauta (Epicauta) sibirica ( Pallas, 1773 )

Pan, Zhao & Ren, Guodong, 2018, Taxonomic revision of the subfamily Meloinae (Coleoptera: Meloidae) from Xizang, China, with description of a new species, Zoological Systematics 43 (1), pp. 66-88 : 71

Epicauta (Epicauta) sibirica ( Pallas, 1773) ( Fig. 4 )

Meloe sibirica Pallas, 1773: 720 . Type locality: “ Sibiria ” ( Russia) . Type depository: destroyed by fire.

Meloe pectinata Goeze, 1777: 701 . Type locality: “Sibiria” ( Russia). Type depository: unknown. Synonymized by Schoenherr, 1817: 26. Lytta dubia Fabricius, 1781: 329 . Type locality: “Sibiria” ( Russia). Type depository: ZMUC.

Cantharis dubia: Olivier, 1795: 283 .

Lytta sibirica: Dejean, 1821: 75 .

Cantharis sibirica: Fischer, 1827: 21 .

Epicauta sibirica: Dejean, 1834: 225 .

Lytta chinensis Laporte, 1840: 274 . Type locality: “Chine” ( China) . Type depository: lost.

Epicauta chinensis: Motschulsky, 1854: 48 .

Epicauta dubia: Mulsant & Rey, 1858: 172 .

Cantharis chinesis: Gemminger & Harold, 1870: 2148 .

Epicauta (Epicauta) chinensis: Bologna, 2008: 372 . Synonymized by Liu et al., 2016: 361.

Epicauta (Epicauta) dubia: Bologna, 2008: 373 . Synonymized by Liu et al., 2016: 361.

Epicauta (Epicauta) sibirica: Bologna, 2008: 374 .

Material examined from Xizang. 1 ex., Qüxü, 2002.VII.6, Guodong Ren leg. ( MHBU). Distribution. China: Xizang (Qüxü ( MHBU)) , Beijing, Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang,

Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Shandong, Henan, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Xinjiang, Taiwan; Mongolia;

Russia; Korea; Japan; Kazakhstan. Remarks. The species is firstly recorded from Xizang, China.

Figures

Figures 1–12. Habitus, dorsal view. 1. Denierella minutiserra Tan. 2. Epicauta hirticornis (Haag-Rutenberg). 3. Epicauta interrupta (Fairmaire). 4. Epicauta sibirica (Pallas). 5. Epicauta wellmani Kaszab. 6. Lytta fissicollis (Fairmaire). 7. Lytta satiata Escherich. 8. Lytta selanderi Saha. 9. Lytta rubrinotata Tan. 10. Lytta bieti Wellman. 11. Lytta roborowskyi (Dokhtouroff). 12. Lytta sifanica Semenov.