Chlaenius (Chlaeniellus) chrysothorax Krynicky, 1832

Kabak, I. I. & Liang, H. - B., 2021, An annotated list of the genus Chlaenius Bonelli, 1810 (Coleoptera: Carabidae) of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China, Far Eastern Entomologist 429, pp. 12-28 : 16-17

Chlaenius (Chlaeniellus) chrysothorax Krynicky, 1832

Figs 1–3

Chlaenius chrysothorax Krynicky, 1832: 79 [type locality: Tauria (Simferopol)].

Chlaenius chloodes Andrewes, 1935: 12 [holotype – male, China: Kuldja , Tien-Shan;

in Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet Stockholm], syn. n.

Chlaenius (s. str.) pallipes (Gebler, 1823) : Kirschenhofer, 2000: 59 (partim).

Chlaenius (Chlaeniellus) kindermanni chrysothorax: Kirschenhofer, 2003: 350 .

aedeagus. Photographed by Dr. J. Bergsten (© 2020 Naturhistoriska riksmuseet). Original photos cropped. Made available by the Swedish Museum of Natural History under Creative

Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License, CC-BY 4.0.

TYPE MATERIAL EXAMINED. Holotype of Chlaenius chloodes , male ( Fig. 1 ),

labeled as “Kuldja, Tien-shan”, “Sven Hedins Exp. Ctr. Asien”, “4882 E92 +”, “ Typus ”,

“ Chlaenius chloodes Andr. Type, H.E. Andrewes det.”, “ Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet

Stockholm, Loan no 431/96”, “NHRS-JLKB000065529” ( NHRS) ( Fig. 2 ).

OTHER MATERIAL EXAMINED. China: Xinjiang, Kunges Riv., N Kunges, 43°31'12"

N, 83°15'22"E, h = 840 m, 15.VII 2012, 1 ♂, 1 ♀, leg. I.I. Kabak ” (cBK); Xinjiang, Xinyuan county, Narat township, bank of Kunes River , 43.3156°N, 84.0167°E, h= 1381 m, 10.VIII

2018, 2 ♂, leg. H.L. Shi & G.Y. Yang ( IOZ); Xinjiang , 1 ♀ ( IOZ) .

NOTES. Chlaenius chrysothorax was described from Crimea (Krynicky, 1832). In the first edition of the Palaearctic catalogue (Kirschenhofer, 2003), the status of this taxon had been downgraded to subspecies of Ch. kindermanni Chaudoir, 1856 . We didn’t find in literature any explication of this nomenclature changing, made in concordance with Code of

Zoological Nomenclature. Taken into account that Ch. kindermanni was described latter

(Chaudoir, 1856), we prefer use for the species under consideration the name Ch. chrysothorax . Its relationships with similar Ch. nitidulus (Schrank, 1781) need a special study.

Chlaenius chloodes was described on one male specimen collected in the Yining region

(Andrewes, 1935). Later, E. Kirschenhofer (2000) wrongly synonymized this species with

Ch. (s. str.) pallipes (Gebler, 1823) . Actually, Ch. chloodes is conspecific with Ch. chrysothorax , we did not find any significant difference between them in the external characters

( Fig. 1 ) and the shape of medial lobe of the aedeagus ( Fig. 3 ).

DISTRIBUTION. Chlaenius chrysothorax is known from the south-eastern part of

Europe, Transcaucasia, Anatolia, Kazakhstan and Middle Asia (Kryzhanovskij et al., 1995;

Kirschenhofer, 2017). In Middle Asia, it is found in Southern and South-Eastern Kazakhstan:

Taraz (ZIN), Charyn and Bayankol valleys (CBK); Kirgizia: Chu Valley, Kazarman, Arkit,

Kugart, Kirgiz Mt. R. and Talas Valley (ZIN); Tajikistan: Zeravshan (ZIN); Turkmenia:

Chardzhou (ZIN). In Xinjiang, this species was collected in the Ili valley.

HABITAT. In the north-eastern part of Middle Asia, the species occurs on the river banks on plains and foothills at elevations 400–1400 m.

Figures

Figs 1–3. Holotype of Chlaenius chloodes Andrewes, 1935. 1 – habitus; 2 – labels; 3 –