Meria askhabadensis Radoszkowski, 1886

(Figs 57–62)

Meria askhabadensis Radoszkowski, 1886, Horae Soc. ent. Rossi. 20: 38, ♀, ♂.

Meria baluchistanensis (Cameron, 1907) . Synonym of Meria askhabadensis by Gorbatovsky, 1980, Nas. Mon., 7: 315.

Plesia baluchistanensis Cameron, 1907, Jour., Bom. Nat. Soc. 18 (1): 135, ♂, Quetta. Synonym of Meria askhabadensis by Gorbatovsky, 1980, Nas. Mon., 7: 315.

Material examined. 2♂, CHINA, Gansu Province, Jiuquan City, Suzhou District, Yinda Town, Xiba Village, 39°54′10.7″N, 98°33′46.7″E, 1424 m, 19. VI .2019, Xue Zhang (CNU); 3♂, CHINA, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Bayingol Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture, Luntai County, Erbatai Village, 41°48′18″N, 83°49′26.4″E, 989 m, 1.VIII.2019, Qian Han (CNU) ; 1♂, CHINA, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Wulasitai S 228, 45°7′15.6″N, 90°6′21.5″E, 1181 m, 19. VII .2019, Tingjing Li (CNU) .

Diagnosis. Male (Fig. 57). Clypeus (Fig. 58) wholly with sparse punctures; vertex with deep and dense to moderate punctures, POD 1.0× OOD; pronotal anterior carina (Figs 59, 60) medially minutely absent, and dorsum of pronotum (Fig. 59) anteriorly with dense punctures and posteriorly with moderate punctures; lateral side of pronotum (Fig. 60) ventrally striate; ventral surface of mid femur smooth, without punctures nor setae; each of T1–T6 except base yellow; T3–T5 (Fig. 61) basally with dense punctures, apical one-third impunctate and smooth; T7 (Fig. 62) anteriorly with moderate punctures and posteriorly with sparse punctures, and apex with notch and tipped lobes rounded.

Female. Head distinctly wider than the high in frontal view, rounded behind the eyes; head and pronotum dark red; dorsum of propodeum basally striate laterally, and medially largely impunctate; T2–T4 laterally with light spots, and the distance between two lateral spots equal to the length of the spot. No female specimens were collected in our study, so description is referred to Radoszkowski (1886).

Distribution. China (Gansu, Xinjiang); Mongolia; Turkmenistan; Kazakhstan; Uzbekistan; Kyrgyzstan; Pakistan; Turkey.