Vulda kazachstanica ( JANÁK 1979 ) Assing, 2010

Assing, V., 2010, On some Palaearctic Xantholinini, primarily from Kazakhstan (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (1), pp. 477-484 : 480

Vulda kazachstanica ( JANÁK 1979) , nov.comb. (Map 1)

Xantholinus (Acanthophallus) kazachstanicus JANÁK 1979: 111 f.

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d Kazakhstan: 1, Bajankol river, near Karatogan village, 11.IX.1988, leg. Kastcheev (cAss).

C o m m e n t: The original description of Xantholinus kazachstanicus is based on two males from "mont Medeo (2000 m) près d'Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan " ( JANÁK 1979). The aedeagus of the specimen listed above is identical to the illustration provided in the original description. Based on external characters such as the posteriorly narrowed head, the narrow pronotum, and particularly the undivided ante-sternal plate of the pronotum, as well as on the internal structures of the aedeagus, this species does not refer to Xantholinus DEJEAN 1821 , but to Vulda JACQUELIN DU VAL 1853 .

The record of V. kazachstanica is remarkable also from a zoogeographic perspective. Previously, the easternmost record of a Vulda species was from northern Turkey ( ASSING 2007). The discovery that X. kazachstanicus refers to Vulda considerably expands the distribution of the genus eastwards. It is newly recorded not only from Kazakhstan, but also from Middle Asia as whole. The currently known distribution of V. kasachstanica is illustrated in Map 1.