Mesovelia egorovi Kanyukova, 1981

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Mesovelia egorovi Kanyukova, 1981

Distribution

Korea? (GB) ( Lee et al. 1994), Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Nansei Islands) ( Miyamoto and Hayashi 1998, Noishiki 2020, Watanabe 2020, Ito and Nakajima 2021, Mariko et al. 2024), Russia (Far East: South Sakhalin, Primorsky Krai) ( Kanyukova 1988, Kanyukova and Egorov 2022).

Notes

Mesovelia egorovi was initially recorded from South Korea by Lee et al. (1994), based on an unspecified number of specimens from Mt. Palgongsan, Gyeongsangbuk-do Province. These specimens were apparently collected from a mountainous habitat, far from the coastline (see Kanyukova and Egorov (2022) for details). However, all known records of M. egorovi are restricted to salt marshes and estuaries from the Russian Far East ( Kanyukova and Egorov 2022) and Hokkaido and Honshu in Japan ( Miyamoto and Hayashi 1998, Watanabe 2020). No additional specimens or distributional records of M. egorovi have been reported in South Korea since its initial report. Based on this evidence, the distributional record of M. egorovi in South Korea is regarded as doubtful; similar suggestions were made by early authors ( Aukema et al. 2013, Kanyukova and Egorov 2022). Collection efforts in salt marshes and lagoons in Goseong, Sokcho and Gangneung, along the north-eastern coastline in South Korea by the authors also failed to locate this species.