Calyptopsis emarginata Reitter, 1889

Chigray, Svetlana, Nabozhenko, Maxim, Keskin, Bekir & Abdurakhmanov, Gayirbeg, 2018, Taxonomic review of the genus Calyptopsis of Turkey and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Tentyriini), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) 58 (2), pp. 331-346 : 335

Calyptopsis emarginata Reitter, 1889

( Figs 1D,E , 4C )

Calyptopsis emarginata: Reitter, 1889: 28 (original description).

Type locality. Azerbaijan, Baku.

Type material. LECTOTYPE (designated by ABDURAKHMANOV & NABOZHENKO 2011):♁, ‘Caucasus / Araxesthal / Leder, Reitter // Typus / Calyptopsis emarginata Rtt. Coll. Reitter. ’ ( HNHM).

Additional material examined. ARMENIA: 1 spec.,‘nearArdanysh [now Artanish in Yerevan Province] / Gok. Eriv. [now Sevan Lake (Gokcha)]: 1 vii 02 [1902] / Elachich, Klemant’; 5 spec., ‘Gyuney [now Areguni] near Nadezh. NW Gokcha / 28 v 02 [1902] / Elachich, Klemant’; 12 spec., ‘mt near Khurkur-kaya [unknown to us] / Gokcha [now Sevan Lake] / 5 vii 902 / Elachich, Klemant; 22 spec., Gokcha [now Sevan Lake], slopes near Adtapa [unknown to us]. AZERBAIJAN: 2 spec., ‘Chagla-Dara Mt. near Kapudzhikh Mt. Nakh / Znoiko / 933 [1933]’. All specimens deposited in ZIN.

Distribution. Armenia, Azerbaijan (including Nakhichevan), Georgia, Iran ( REITTER 1889, ABDURAKHMANOV & NABOZHENKO 2001, present paper).

Remarks. This species was recorded from Turkey by FERRER & SOLDATI (1999) only, as they misinterpreted label ‘Kara Dagh (Kurdistan) (2200 m), 6.VII.1983 (Richter leg.)’. This specimen was collected by the famous Soviet-Russian entomologist Vera Andreevna Richter in the North Western Iran, East Azerbaijan Province, Arasbaran (or Karadag) mountain system with maximum altitude 2200 m. She never visited Turkey.

On the other hand, Calyptopsis emarginata is widespread in Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Iran near the border with Turkey and can be found in Iğdır Province. Bogatshev listed this species for Ararat (now Ağrı, Turkey) in his unpublished manuscript ‘ Tenebrionidae of Azerbaijan’.

Figures

Fig. 1. Calyptopsis spp., habitus. A – C. capnisiformis capnisiformis Reitter, 1903, ♁; B – C. capnisiformis volcanica subsp. nov., ♁; C – C. caucasica (Kraatz, 1865), ♁; D – C. emarginata Reitter, 1889, ♁; E – C. emarginata, ♀; F – C. kaszabi sp. nov.

Fig. 4. Calyptopsis spp., habitus, pronotum. A – C. pulchella (Faldermann, 1837), ♁; B – C. pulchella, ♀; C – C. emarginata Reitter, 1889, pronotum; D – C. pulchella, pronotum.