Kuatunia oloyensis Wittmer, 1999

Tshernyshev, Sergei E., 2012, Two new species of soft-winged flower beetles of the genus Kuatunia Evers, 1945 48 (Coleoptera, Malachiidae) from China and northeastern Russia, Zootaxa 3191, pp. 56-64 : 62-63

Kuatunia oloyensis Wittmer, 1999

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Distribution notes. In the original description Walter Wittmer reports three localities, two of which erroneously placed in Transbaikalia:

Holotype: Magadanskaya Oblast, SE Siberia (not in Transbaikalia: Oloy River is a tributary of Omolon River, in its turn a tributary of Kolyma River); a first Paratype labelled “Verkhneudinsk” (now Ulan-Ude), actually in Transbaikalia; a second Paratype from Amurskaya Oblast, in the Russian Far East (Skovorodino) (not in Transbaikalia). Later, some further specimens were found in Baikal (Olkhon peninsula), Chita and Yakutia, as detailed below:

IRKUTSKAYA OBLAST: Vitim Upland, upper stream of Bolshoi Amalat River, 1.VIII.1967, coll.?—1 Ƥ (SCH); Olkhonsky Raion, Chernorud environce, Sarinskii Goletz (mountain peak stones), on Pinus pumila , 12.VII.1998, S. Toshchakov leg. —1 3 (SCH); CHITINSKAYA OBLAST: Chita City, 4.VII.1977, V. Kovalev, D. Zherikhin leg.—1 3 (SZMN); YAKUTIA: Keedei Lake, pass to the Amgu river, 15.VII. [19]25, L. Bianki leg.—1 3 (ZISP).

Thus, this species appears widely distributed in the northeastern part of Asiatic Russia.

Figures

FIGURE 14. Distribution map for Kuatunia nordica Tshernyshev, 2012 sp. n. (square), K. wolongensis Tshernyshev, 2012 sp. n. (triangle) and K. oloyensis Wittmer, 1999 (circle).