Mycetochara (Ernocharis) ingushetica Nabozhenko & Gadaborsheva 2024
Authors/Creators
- 1. Precaspian Institute of Biological Resources of the Daghestan Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, M. Gadzhiev str., 45, Makhachkala, 367000, Russia & Dagestan State University, M. Gadzhiev str., 43 a, Makhachkala, 367000, Russia
- 2. Donetsk Botanical Garden, Il'ich Avenue, 110, Donetsk, 283059, Russia
- 3. " Federal Research Center the Southern Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences ", Chekhov Ave., 41, Rostov-on-Don, 344006, Russia
Description
Mycetochara (Ernocharis) ingushetica Nabozhenko & Gadaborsheva, 2024
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Type material. See Nabozhenko & Gadaborsheva (2024).
Material. 9♂♂, 1♀ (ZMMU), Russia, North Ossetia, Buron, iv.1976 (M.I. Dubrovina); 1♀ (PCMN), Russia, Karachay-Cherkessia, upper reaches of the Rechepsta River, 43˚34ʹ 30.0ʺN, 41˚05ʹ 05.5ʺE, 2034 m, on Acer trautvetteri Medw. 3– 4.07.2020 (M.V. Nabozhenko, D.G. Kasatkin); 2♀♀ (PCMN), Russia, Karachay-Cherkessia, turn to Nizhniy Arkhyz, 43˚40ʹ 19.7ʺN, 41˚26ʹ 03.9ʺE, 1222 m, 6.07.2020 (M.V. Nabozhenko); 2♀♀ (ZIN), Karachay-Cherkessia, Zakan, 43˚41ʹ56ʺN / 40˚47ʹ35ʺE, 1250–1300 m, under the bark of a rotten Acer platanoides L., 1753, 15–19.vi.2025 (M.V. Nabozhenko).
Notes. This species was listed as M. hirsuta Pic, 1925 by Dubrovina et al. (1979) from North Ossetia; ten specimens were hatched from larvae, collected in rotten maple. Later, M. hirsuta was interpreted as a junior synonym of M. maura (Novák 2020b). We believe that both opinions are erroneous. Mycetochara hirsuta was described from “Borjom” (Transcaucasia, Georgia: Borjomi) as a large species with suberected body setation (Pic 1925a). The species M. maura does not inhabit the Caucasus, where it is replaced by a similar species M. zolotareffi. Thus, the Transcaucasian M. hirsuta is a valid species that should be reestablished from the junior synonyms of M. maura: M. hirsuta Pic, 1925, sp. resurr. Thus, two large black unicolorous species remain in the Caucasus: M. ingushetica and M. hirsuta. The first one is known only from the Northern Caucasus, and the second one from Transcaucasia. The second species, collected from Abkhazia, was tentatively identified as M. cf. abschasica and well illustrated by Nabozhenko (2022) and Nabozhenko & Gadaborsheva (2024). This is a large specimen belonging to M. hirsuta.
Distribution. Russia, the North Caucasus: Karachay-Cherkessia, North Ossetia, Ingushetia.
Bionomics. The species is distributed from 600 to ~ 2000 m. Most specimens (larvae, pupae and imagines) were found on different Acer spp. In Ingushetia all specimens were collected on window trap with exposure on damaged Quercus robur L.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- PCMN , ZIN , ZMMU
- Event date
- 2020-07-04 , 2020-07-06 , 2025-06-15
- Verbatim event date
- 2020-07-04 , 2020-07-06 , 2025-06-15/19
- Scientific name authorship
- Nabozhenko & Gadaborsheva
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Staphylinidae
- Genus
- Mycetochara
- Species
- ingushetica
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mycetochara (Ernocharis) ingushetica Nabozhenko, 2024 sec. Nabozhenko, Martynov & Bulysheva, 2025
References
- Nabozhenko, M. V. & Gadaborsheva, M. A. (2024) Materials to the knowledge of darkling beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from mountain Ingushetia (Russia) and comparison of tenebrionid fauna of semiarid basins in the North Caucasus. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin, 20 (2), 333-342. [in Russian] https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14566134
- Dubrovina, M. I., Gusakova, T. V. & Mamaev, B. M. (1979) Larvae of comb-clawed beetles of the subfamily Alleculinae of the fauna of the USSR. In: Pravdin, F. N. (Ed.), Insects - wood destroyers and their entomophages. Nauka, Moscow, pp. 98-129. [in Russian]
- Novak, V. (2020 b) Subfamily Alleculinae Laporte, 1840. In: Iwan, D. & Lobl, I. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 5. Tenebrionoidea. Brill, Leiden, pp. 417-453. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004434998_004
- Pic, M. (1925 a) Notes diverses, descriptions et diagnoses (Suite). L'Echange, Revue Linneenne, 41 (419), 1-9.
- Nabozhenko, M. V. (2022) Materials to the knowledge of darkling beetles of the Bzyb River basin with check-list of Tenebrionidae (Coleoptera) of Abkhazia. In: Proceedings of the Ritsa Relict National Park. Issue II. To the 25 th anniversary of the Ritsa Relict National Park. Ritsa Relict National Park Press, Gudauta, pp. 39-51. [in Russian]