Eulithoxenus mongolicus (Uvarov, 1928)

Sergeev, M. G., Storozhenko, S. Yu. & Benediktov, A. A., 2018, An annotated check-list of Orthoptera of Tuva and adjacent regions. Part 1. Suborder Ensifera, Far Eastern Entomologist 372, pp. 1-24 : 6

3. Eulithoxenus mongolicus (Uvarov, 1928)

Eulithoxenus mongolicus: Stebaev, 1980: 10 ; Sergeev, 1982: 43; Sergeev, 1991: 51–52; Benediktov,

1997: 117; Storozhenko, 2004: 127.

MATERIAL. Tuva: West Tannu-Ola Mts., near Khandagajty settlement, 50°48′N , 92°05′

and 50°44′N 92°09′E, 1100–1400 m, piedmonts with dry stony steppes with Caragana bushes and stony semi-deserts on mountain slopes, 18 and 23.VIII 1985, 1 ♂, 2 ♀ (Bugrov); East

Tannu-Ola Mts. , southern slope, near Shivelig River, 50°43′N, 94°33′E, 1300–1400 m, dry mountain steppes, 11.IX 1978, 2 ♂, 2 ♀ ( IS, Lee) .

REMARKS. The species was mentioned from Tuva (and the former USSR) for the first time by Stebaev (1980).

DISTRIBUTION. Tuva: WTO, ETO. – Mongolia, including the Mongolian part of UvsNuur Basin (Chogsomzhav, 1977).

ECOLOGY. Rare in dry mountain steppes and semi-deserts and steppes with Caragana bushes on mountain slopes and piedmont plains, adults are in August and September,

sometimes under stones (Sergeev, 1982, 1991).