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Earophanta pubescens Skopin 1960

  • 1. St. Petersburg State University, 16 line of Vasilevskiy Island, 29, St. Petersburg 199178 Russia.
  • 2. Precaspian Institute of Biological Resources of the Daghestan Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, M. Gadzhiev str., 45, Makhachkala, Republic of Dagestan 367000 Russia. & Dagestan State University, M. Gadzhiev str., 43 a, Makhachkala, Republic of Dagestan 367000 Russia. & Severtsov Institute of ecology and evolution of the Russian Academy of sciences, Leninsky Prospect, 33, Moscow 119071 Russia.
  • 3. Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya Emb. 1, St. Petersburg 199034 Russia.

Description

Earophanta pubescens Skopin, 1960

Material examined

Holotype KAZAKHSTAN • ♂; “Ю.З. ПрибалхаШье, КолШенгил, 25.04.1951, M. Мальховский” [SW Balkhash region, west of Muyunkum Desert, Kolshengil]; “Holotypus, Europhanta pubescens 1959 N. Skopin det.”; 25 Apr. 1951; M. Mal’khovskiy leg.; ZIN.

Paratypes KAZAKHSTAN • 2 ♂♂; same geographic labels as for holotype; “Paratypus, Earophanta pubescens 1959, N. Skopin det.”; ZIN.

Additional material

KAZAKHSTAN • 1 spec.; Muyunkum; 26 Apr. 1954; M. Serkova leg.; “ Earophanta pubescens sp. n. Typ. 1959 N. Skopin”; “Holotypus 1960 Earophanta pubescens Skopin ” (curator’s label); HNHM • 1 spec.; same collection data as for preceding; “ Earophanta pubescens sp. n. paratyp. 1959 N. Skopin”; “Paratypus 1960 Earophanta pubescens Skopin ” (curator’s label); HNHM • 6 ♂♂, 1 ♀; 18 km E of Kokozek [Kok-uzek]; 5 Oct. 1961; Kunitsky leg.; ZIN • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 8 May 1962; ZIN • 2 ♂♂; Karatal; 30 Jun. 1965; N.G. Skopin leg.; ZIN • 1 ♂; Karatal; 100 km below Ushtobe; 28 Apr. 1965; N.G. Skopin leg.; ZIN • 3 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀; Muyunkum Desert; 23 Mar. 1963; N.G. Skopin leg.; ZIN

Distribution

Kazakhstan (Balchash region, Muyunkum Desert) (Skopin 1960, 1968).

Note

Skopin and curators marked two specimens of E. pubescens from HNHM as a holotype and a paratype, respectively. However, Skopin (1960) did not include these specimens in the type series.

Notes

Published as part of Chigray, Svetlana N., Nabozhenko, Maxim V., Chigray, Ivan A. & Abakumov, Evgeny V., 2022, A revision of the Palaearctic Pimeliini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae): a comparative analysis and systematic position of Eastern European and Asian taxa with dorso-lateral eyes, pp. 1-71 in European Journal of Taxonomy 809 on page 57, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.809.1719, http://zenodo.org/record/6419425

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References

  • Skopin N. G. 1960. Neue Tenebrioniden aus Zentralasien. I. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 52: 295 - 311.