Microdera deserta deserta (Tauscher, 1812)
(Fig. 6)
Tentyria deserta Tauscher, 1812: 38 .
= Tentyria deplanata Gebler, 1841: 373 .
Type material examined. Tentyria deplanata (Fig. 6A, E, F). Lectotype (ZIN), ♂, hereby designated: goldish square, “Camp. Kirg or.” (the first two words are printed, the third is handwritten; east of Kirghiz steppes = central and eastern Kazakhstan), “ deplanata Gebl. St. Kirg. or.” (handwritten), “ Lectotypus Tentyria deplanata Gebler, 1841 des. M. Nabozhenko, 2024”. Paralectotype (ZIN), sex unknown: goldish square, “Camp. Kirg. or.”. The second paralectotype (as a syntype) from Zoological Museum of Moscow State University was mentioned by Abdurakhmanov & Nabozhenko (2011). References and synonymy were indicated in Nabozhenko & Kalashian (2022).
Material examined. 1 ♀ (ZIN): Tashkent, 5.vi.1915 (T.E.S. = Turkestan Entomological Station) (Fig. 6B–D) .
Distribution. European part of Russia: Caspian depression (Nabozhenko & Kalashian 2022), Kazakhstan: from Caspian Depression across Aral sands to Ili valley and Alakol Lake (Skopin 1961a), Uzbekistan: Tashkent (new record for the country), China: Ili valley (Skopin 1961a). The second subspecies Microdera deserta skopini Kaszab, 1966 was described from SE Kazakhstan and it is probably a good species, because distinctly differs from M. deserta s. str. in the shape of the pronotum.