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Plateumaris sericea subsp. caucasica

Description

Plateumaris sericea caucasica (Zaitzev, 1930)

Material. NOR: 12 ex., Prigorodny Distr., Tarskoye vill. env., “Tarskoye” Sphagnum peat bog, 42°57′47″N / 44°43′34″E, on Scirpus sylvaticus, 30.05.2018 (A.A. Prokin). KBR, Chereksky Distr.: 1 ex., Verkhnyaya Balkaria env., Sphagnum peat bog No 1, 43°06′03″N / 43°29′24″E, 6.06.2018 (A.A.Prokin); 3 ex., Verkhnyaya Balkaria env., Sphagnum peat bog No 3, 43°05′49″N / 43°28′44″E, 8.06.2018 (A.A. Prokin); 2 ex., Verkhnyaya Balkaria env., Sphagnum peat bog No 4, 43°06′16″N / 43°28′24″E, 8.06.2018 (A.A. Prokin); 18 ex., “Ushtulu” narzan mire, 42°58′29″N / 43°20′05″E, 9.06.2018 (A.A. Prokin, A.S. Sazhnev).

Note. Larvae feeding on Iris pseudacorus, Carex disparata, Scirpus fluviatilis, Oryza sativa; imago feeding on representatives of genera Iris, Carex, Scirpus, Caltha [Bieńkowski, 2015].

Distribution. Europe, Belarus, Ukraine, European part of Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Asian Kazakhstan, West and East Siberia [Silfverberg, 2010]. This subspecies was described from Stavropol and Khasavyurt (Dagestan), Russia. In the North Caucasus the subspecies is recorded from Adygea [Medvedev et al., 2010], Dagestan, Karachay-Cherkessia and Krasnodar Region [Bienkowski, Orolva-Bienkowskaja, 2017]. Subspecies affiliation of Transcaucasian material is still not clear. The first records for North Ossetia and Kabardino-Balkaria.

Notes

Published as part of Prokin, A. A. & Sazhnev, A. S., 2019, New records of beetles from families Haliplidae, Dytiscidae, Hydraenidae, Helophoridae, Hydrophilidae, Scirtidae and Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) from the North Caucasus, pp. 49-53 in Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 15 (1) on pages 51-52, DOI: 10.23885/181433262019151-4953, http://zenodo.org/record/8145606

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2018-05-30 , 2018-06-08
Family
Chrysomelidae
Genus
Plateumaris
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Zaitzev
Species
caucasica
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Verbatim event date
2018-05-30 , 2018-06-08
Taxonomic concept label
Plateumaris sericea subsp. caucasica (Zaitzev, 1930) sec. Prokin & Sazhnev, 2019

References

  • Bienkowski A. O. 2015. Zhizn' listoedov-raduzhnits (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Donaciinae) [Life of Reed Beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Donaciinae)]. Livny: G. V. Mukhametov: 380 p. (in Russian).
  • Silfverberg H. 2010. Donaciinae Kirby, 1937. In: Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 6. Chrysomeloidea. (I. Lobl, A. Smetana eds). Stenstrup: Apollo Books: 354 - 359.
  • Medvedev L. N., Shapovalov M. I., Korotyaev B. A., Tsynkevich V. A., Nikitsky N. B. 2010. Family Chrysomelidae. In: Coleopterous insects (Insecta, Coleoptera) of Republic of Adygheya (annotated catalogue of species) (Fauna conspecta of Adygheya. № 1). Maykop: Adyghei State University Publishers: 264 - 286 (in Russian).