Thanatophilus porrectus (SEMENOV, 1891)

Ghahari, Hassan, Háva, Jiří, R, Aclypea, M, Dendroxena, L, Necrodes, F, Nicrophorus & L, Phosphuga, 2015, An annotated checklist of the Iranian carrion beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea: Silphidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 47 (2), pp. 1501-1511 : 1507

Thanatophilus porrectus (SEMENOV, 1891)

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Khorasan province, Taybad, 786 m, 34°48′N 60°40′E, 13, 1♀, June 2010. New record for Iran.

G e n e r a l d i s t r i b u t i o n: Widely distributed from Armenia to northern and western part of Central Asia (including Pamir mts and Karakorum mts), western China and Far East of Russia ( SCHAWALLER 1982; RŮŽIČKA & SCHNEIDER 1996; NIKOLAEV & KOZMINYKH 2002), Afghanistan, Pakistan ( RUŽIČKA & SCHNEIDER 2002; LÖBL & SMETANA 2004).