Oreodytes shorti SHAVERDO & FERY 2006

Fery, H., P. N & Alarie, Y., 2007, Notes on the identity of Oreodytes dauricus (MOTSCHULSKY 1860) and other members of the O. alaskanus-clade (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 39 (1), pp. 65-78 : 71

Notes on Oreodytes shorti SHAVERDO & FERY 2006

This species was recently described from Mongolia and so far known only from three localities in a small region of the Changai mountain range, ca. 450 km WSW Ulaanbaatar, and ca. 25-75 km SW Tsetserleg (straight line). Since then specimens from a fourth, nearby locality became known with the following collecting data: Arkhangay Aimag, Bulgan Soum, Urd Tamir Gol, braid upstream of bridge, ca. 63 km SW of Tsetserleg, 47.11192N 101.01048E, 2066 m, 13.- 15.7.2004, A.E.Z. Short leg. All four localities are so close to each other that they can be represented by only a single square in the map (Fig. 19). For comparison, the male genitalia are given in Figs 9-10 and the male and female right fore legs in Figs 13-14.