Aleochara (Xenochara) lygaea KRAATZ, 1862

Assing, V., 2009, On the taxonomy and zoogeography of some Palaearctic Aleochara species of the subgenera Xenochara M & R and Rheochara M & R (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 59 (1), pp. 33-101 : 80-81

Aleochara (Xenochara) lygaea KRAATZ, 1862 ( Figs 169-171)

Material examined:

France: B ♂ ♂, 2 ♀♀, Haute Provence, Annot env., 900 m, VI.1988, leg. Wunderle (cWun, cAss) . Germany: 1 ♂, Sachsen-Anhalt, Krüden , deer carrion, 21.V.1993, leg. Wunderle (cWun) ; 1 ♂, Sachsen, Grossschönau , 6.IV.1967, leg. Sieber (cWun) .

Austria: A ♂, 1 ♀, Osttirol, Kals, stream, 7.VIII.1995, leg. Feldmann (cAss) .

Bosnia-Herzegovina: 1 ♂, road from Kraljeva-Sutesca to Mostre, arable land, car-net, 5.V.1990, leg. Wunderle (cWun) ; 1 ♀, Vlasic planina, 600-1700 m, car-net, 5.V.1990, leg. Wunderle (cWun).

Turkey: see ASSING (2007a).

Kyrgyzstan: 1 ♂, Dshal-Abad , Chandalashckiy Chrebet, Kara Kysmak, 42°07'N, 71°33'E, 2390 m, 22.- 23.VII.2006, leg. Schmidt (cAss) ; 1 ♀, Talass , Kirgizskiy Alatau, Terek-Sai valley, 42°34'N, 72°43'E, 1850 m, 18.-20.VII.2006, leg. Schmidt (cAss) .

China: 3 exs., Gansu, Xiahe (= Labrang) env., 35°12'N, 102°31'E, 2940 m, in burrows and excrements of Marmota himalayana , 19.-22.VI.2005, leg. Hájek et al. (cSch, cAss) .

Comment:

The above specimens from Kyrgyzstan represent new country records and the first records from the whole of Middle Asia. In China, this species was previously known only from Heilongjiang province ( SMETANA 2004). The primary sexual characters of the specimens from Kyrgyzstan are illustrated in Figs 169-171.