Blaps motschulskiana Bogatchev, 1947

Chigray, Ivan & Ivanov, Alexander, 2020, A Review Of The Genus Blaps (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) Of Central And South Kazakhstan With Description Of Two New Species, Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 66 (2), pp. 111-162 : 133-134

Blaps motschulskiana Bogatchev, 1947

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Motschulsky, 1845: 65 (“ Blaps gigantea ”); Seidlitz, 1893: 268 (“ B. gigantea ”); BOGATCHEV, 1947: 515 ( B. motschulskiana , new name for B. gigantea Motschulsky, 1845 nec B. gigantea L. Petagna, 1819 ); Skopin, 1968: 87 (“ Lithoblaps gigantea ”).

Type material examined (ZIN). Lectotype of Blaps gigantea Motschulsky, 1845 is designated here: m, ‘ Blaps gigantea Motschulsky / Tekke. // Lectotypus / Blaps gigantea Motschulsky, 1845 / des. I.A. Chigray’.

Material examined ( ZIN). 1 m, ‘ Turkmenistan / Karahan / 15.v.1976 / leg. G. Medvedev’ [in Cyrillics]; 1 f, ‘Turkestan’; 1 f ‘ Turkmenistan / Trans-Caspian Region / Ashgabat / 3.v.1889 / leg. A. Semenov’ [in Cyrillics]; 1 m ‘ Turkmenistan / Trans-Caspian Region / Ashgabat / 2.v.1889 / leg. A. Semenov’ [in Cyrillics]; 2 ff ‘ Trans-Caspi G. / Turcmenien / leg. E. König’; 1 f ‘ Turkmenistan / Ashgabat / 1986 / leg. Varentsev’ [in Cyrillics] .

Distribution. Kazakhstan ( SKOPIN 1968 ), Turkmenistan, Afghanistan ( LÖBL et al. 2008).

Regional distribution. Southeastern parts of Kyzylkum desert and Syr Darya River near the border of Uzbekistan ( SKOPIN 1968 ).

Figures

Fig. 22. B. motschulskiana, habitus. A, B = m; C = f; A, C = dorsal view; B = ventral view

Fig. 36. Hair tuft between 1st and 2nd abdominal ventrites. A = B. motschulskiana, B = B. tsharynensis tsharynensis, C = B. skopini sp. n.