Cossyphus (Cossyphus) tauricus Steven, 1829

Háva, Jiří, 2007, List of specimens of the tribe Cossyphini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) kept in the National Museum, Praha, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 47, pp. 183-187 : 187

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scientific name	Cossyphus (Cossyphus) tauricus Steven, 1829
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10. Cossyphus (Cossyphus) tauricus Steven, 1829

Cossyphus (Cossyphus) tauricus Steven, 1829 : SCUPOLA (2000): 230.

Material examined. AZERBAIJAN: ‘ Lenkoran, Caucasus, Bodemeyer’, 1 spec. ( NMPC). CAUCASUS: ‘ Caucasus’, 2 spec. ( NMPC). CYPRUS: ‘ Yermasoyia River, Cyprus,10- 13.1.1950 ’, 8 spec. (7 NMPC,1 JHAC). GEORGIA: ‘ Tyflis , Caucas. , 23.iv.1918, Dr. W. Eichler’, 2 spec. ( NMPC). GREECE: ‘ Corfu, Reitter’ // Cossyphus insularis’, 5 spec. (4 NMPC, 1 JHAC) ; ‘ Corfu, Moczarski’, 1 spec. ( NMPC) ; ‘ Corfu, Winkler’, 1 spec. ( NMPC) ; ‘ Corfu, K. Kyselý’, 1 spec. ( NMPC) ; ‘ Graecia, Reitter’, 2 spec. ( NMPC) ; ‘ Graecia’, 2 spec. ( NMPC) ; ‘ Griechenland, Reitter’, 3 spec. ( NMPC) ; ‘ Attica’, 2 spec. ( NMPC) ; ‘ Zante’, 1 spec. ( NMPC) ; ‘ Morea, Hagios Wlassis, Brenske’ // ‘ Cossyphus tauricus Stev. , det. Hlisnikowski 1942’, 6 spec. ( NMPC) ; ‘ Morea, Taygetos, Brenske’, 1 spec. ( NMPC) ; ‘ Parnass’, 2 spec. ( NMPC). IRAN: ‘ Iran, 18-19.v.2006, Khorasan Razni prov., Shurlaq (river valley; at light), 36°18,8'N 60°38,0'E, 570 m, Jiří Hájek & Pavel Chvojka leg.’, 1 spec. ( NMPC) GoogleMaps ; ‘ Iran, Golestan prov., 27.v.2006, 5 km W Sari Qamish (river valley, at light), 37°52,3'N 55°45,3'E GoogleMaps ; 155 m, Jiří Hájek & Pavel Chvojka leg.’, 1 spec. ( NMPC). IRAQ: ‘ Bagdad, coll. Kálalová’, 4 spec. (3 NMPC, 1 JHAC). ITALY: ‘ Catania , Sicilia’, 7 spec. (6 NMPC, 1 JHAC) ; ‘ Gerace, Calabr., Paganetti’, 1 spec. ( NMPC). RUSSIA: ‘ Russia’, 3 spec. ( NMPC). TURKEY: ‘ Karatas, Anat. 2- 5.8.[19]47, Exp. N. Mus. ČSR’ // ‘ Cossyphus tauricus Stev., Dr. Z. Kaszab det.1958’, 4 spec. ( NMPC) ; ‘ Kadi Keui, Constantinople, V. M. Duchon’, 7 spec. (6 NMPC, 1 JHAC) ; ‘ Constantinople, Turcia, vii.1929, Dr.Jureček’, 3 spec. ( NMPC). TURKMENISTAN: ‘ Transcaspien, Oase Tedshen , 8.1903, coll. Hauser’, 1 spec. ( NMPC). Doubtful locality: ‘ Owtschaly 1879’ // ‘ Cossyphus tauricus Hbst , det. Hlisnikowski 1942’, 4 spec. ( NMPC) .

Distribution. Species known from Albania, Afghanistan, ‘Caucasus’, Cyprus, Greece, southwestern Russia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy (including Sardinia), Syria, Turkey, and Turkmenistan ( SCUPOLA 2000). New species for Azerbaijan and Georgia.