Cardiophorus (Cardiophorus) discicollis (Herbst, 1806)

Material examined. Kuznetsk depression, Kemerovo distr., 12 km NW of Kemerovo city, near Staraya Balakhonka vill., stone steppe, sweeping, 9.VII.2009, DE leg. (1 spec.) .

Bionomics. The species inhabits various open biotopes (Dolin 1988). In the Kemerovo Area it is collected in a stone steppe.

Distribution. Europe, Asia Minor, European Russia, Western Siberia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Tadzhikistan, Uzbekistan and northwestern China (Gurjeva 1968; Cate et al. 2007; Prosvirov & Kovalenko 2015).

Remarks. Cherepanov (1957), in his monograph on the click-beetles of Western Siberia, distinguishes C. discicollis from other closely related species of the region by the bicolor body. In fact this is true only for the females of this species. Males of C. discicollis have unicolor black body except reddish legs and antennal joints (Chassain 1983; Dolin 1988).