Selatosomus songoricus

Selatosomus songoricus (Kraatz, 1879)

(Fig. 5, 6, 16)

? Byzova, Chadaeva, 1965: 334, 336 (as Selatosomus reichardti Den.): foothills of Salair Ridge, chern taiga.

Material examined. “ Verkhnyaya Ters`, taiga”, 26.VI.1957, 5.VII.1957, SS leg. (5 spec.; MSU); “Verkhnyaya Ters`”, 9.VII.1955, 9.VII.1957, SS leg. (2 spec.; MSU); “Stalinsk [here and so on: at present it is Novokuznetsk city], sweeping, mountains”, 13.VI.1957, SS leg., (2 spec.; MSU); “Stalinsk, 13.VI.1957 », SS leg. (4 spec.; MSU); Zelenaya, forest path, 9.VII.2000, Î.N. Skalon leg. (1 spec.; KSU); Zelenaya, h=750 m, 52°57’12.1'’N 87°57’53.1'’E, 1 -3.VII.2015, AK leg. (1 spec.); Mountain Shoria, Tashtagol distr., near Mundybash vill., meadow, 2.VII.2005, T. Bauer leg. (1 spec.); Verkhnyaya Ters` guarding point, bank of Verkhnyaya Ters` riv., 9 - 11.VII.2009, AK leg. (1 spec.); Kuznetsk depression, Belovo distr., Karakansky Ridge near Permyaki vill., 1-3.VII.2014, D. Sushchev leg. (2 spec.); Kuznetsk depression, vic. of Permyaki vill., NE slope of Karakansky Ridge, 12. VI.2006, DS leg. (1 spec.).

Bionomics. This species inhabits mountain steppes (Gurjeva 1989). In the Kemerovo Area it was collected in forest biotopes of mountains and foothills.

Distribution. Eastern Kazakhstan and western Mongolia (Gurjeva 1989). The records of the species for Siberia (Tarnawski, 1995; Schimmel et al., 2015) are mistaken due to incorrect interpretation of their localities. This is the first reliable record of this species for Russia. A map of the localities inhabited by this species in the Kemerovo Area is shown in Fig. 16.