Tachinus (s.str.) sibiricus Sharp, 1888

Veselova, Elena, 2011, On the fauna of Tachyporinae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) of the Russian Far East. I. The genus Tachinus Gravenhorst, 1802, Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 11 (1), pp. 73-92 : 87-89

Tachinus (s.str.) sibiricus Sharp, 1888

Tachinus sibiricus Sharp, 1888 , The Annals and Magazine of natural History, Ser.6, Vol. 2(11): 383 Tachinus (s.str.) sibiricus ; Tichomirova, 1973a: 150

Tachinus (s.str.) sibiricus ; Ullrich, 1975: 168 Tachinus sibiricus ; Filatova, 1983, Teoretikografovyie metody v biogeograficheskikh issledovaniyakh: 73

Tachinus sibiricus ; Li, J. 1992: 55

Tachinus sibiricus ; Li, J. 1993, Studies on fauna and ecogeography of soil animals: 43

Tachinus (s.str.) sibiricus ; Li, L.-Z. 1995, The Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology, 1(1): 62

Tachinus sibiricus ; Schülke, 1995, Koleopterologische Rundschau, 65: 37 Tachinus sibiricus ; Semenov, 1998, Archives of Zoological Museum Moscow State University: 8

Tachinus sibiricus ; Schülke, 2003, Entomologische Blätter, 98(3): 178

Tachinus nigerrimus ; Kryzhanovskiy et al., 1973, Ekologia pochvennykh bespozvonochnykh: 147 Tachinus (s.str.) nigerrimus (pars); Tichomirova, 1973a:150

Tachinus nigerrimus ; Molodova, 1973, Ekologia pochvennykh bespozvonochnykh: 68

Tachinus nigerrimus ; Kurcheva, 1977: 66

Material. AMUR AREA: 1ex: Uliagir, W of Skovorodino, 20.06.1959, O.N.Kabakov leg. ( ZIN).― 1 female: Selemdzhinskiy District, Selemdzhinsk, 270–280 m a.s.l., in cow dung (2 days), 08.08.1976, EV & AR leg. ( EV).― 2 males, 1 female: same locality, fungus bait (3 days), 08.08.1976, EV & AR leg. ( EV).― 1 male, 1 female: Zeyskiy Nature Reserve, „Tyoplyi Klyuch” cordon, 12.06.1978, V. V.Belov & S.A.Kurbatov leg. ( EV).― 1 female: same locality and collectors, 16.06.1978, ( EV).― 2 males: Zeyskiy Nature Reserve, 07.08.1978, V. V.Belov & S.A.Kurbatov leg. ( EV).― 1 female: near Zeya Town, Soktakhan Mt. Ridge, 06.06.1978, V. V.Belov & S.A.Kurbatov leg. ( EV).― 1 female: Zeyskiy Nature Reserve, „52nd km” cordon, 12.07.1978, V. V.Belov leg. ( EV).― 1 male: Selemdzhinskiy District, Norskiy Nature Reserve, Selemdzha River basin, near Dvadtsatikha cordon, in geophilous and epigenous gill and pore fungi, 08.08.2004, AR leg. ( EV).― 1 female: Selemdzhinskiy District, Norskiy Nature Reserve, Nora River basin, near Maltsevskiy cordon, Maltsevskoye Lake, evening flight in aspen forest, 11.06.2005, EV & AR leg. ( EV).― 1 female: Mazanovskiy District, Nora River, bank of Sorokavyorstnaya Channel, at the bottom of a rocky NE slope of Maltsevskaya Mt., day flight, 12.06.2005, EV & AR leg. ( EV).― 1 female: Selemdzhinskiy District, Norskiy Nature Reserve, Selemdzha River basin, near Dvadtsatikha cordon, flight in sparse forest with Betula davurica , Larix gmelinii , young Corylus mandshurica and Tilia amurensis , Poaceae gen. spp., Carex spp. , Iris sp. , Pteridium aquilinum and other ferns, Equisetum pratense , Rubus arcticus , Filipendula palmata, Hemerocallis sp., Chamaenerion angustifolium, Sanguisorba sp., Fabaceae gen. spp., Fragaria sp. , Rosa sp. , Geranium sp. , Dictamnus dasycarpus , etc (old fire-site), 27.06.2005, EV & AR leg. ( EV).― 1 female: Selemdzhinskiy District, Norskiy Nature Reserve, lower reaches of Chervinka River, in rotten cep, 04.07.2005, EV & AR leg. ( EV).― 1 female: Selemdzhinskiy District, Norskiy Nature Reserve, Nora River basin, near Meunskiy cordon, sweeping on Rhododendron sp. 10.07.2005, AR leg. ( EV).― 9 males, 6 females: Selemdzhinskiy District, Norskiy Nature Reserve (buffer zone), right side of Meun River, near mouth, rotten ceps in Picea ajanensis forest with Abies nephrolepis, Populus spp., Maianthemum bifolium , Trientalis europaea , Equisetum pratense , E. sylvaticum , Hylocomium splendens , Pleurozium schreberi , etc, 11.07.2005, AR leg. ( EV).― 1 female: Selemdzhinskiy District, Norskiy Nature Reserve, Selemdzha River basin, near Dvadtsatikha cordon, in flight, in burnt sparse larch forest, 26.06.2005, EV & AR leg. ( EV).― 1 female: Mazanovskiy District, right side of Selemdzha River between Nora River mouth and Ust’-Norskaya mountain, Lodochnikova channel, 215–230 m a.s.l., in geophilous gill fungi, 14.08.2006, EV & AR leg. ( EV).― 1 female: Mazanovskiy District, Nora River basin, Sorokavyorstnaya Channel, Sosnovaya Mt., 215 m a.s.l., in geophilous gill fungi, 30.07.2006, EV & AR leg. ( EV).― 1 male, 3 females: Mazanovskiy District, Nora River basin, Sorokavyorstnaya Channel, lower reaches of Zolotoy Rill, 225 m a.s.l., rotten cep, 01.08.2006, EV & AR leg. ( EV).― 2 males, 2 females: Selemdzhinskiy District, Norsk, bank of Aldikon River, 200 m a.s.l., in geophilous gill fungi, 16.08.2006, EV & AR leg. ( EV).― 1 male: Selemdzhinskiy District, Norskiy Nature Reserve, Selemdzha River basin, 1.5 km NE of Dvadtsatikha cordon, 223 m a.s.l., in geophilous gill fungi, 18.08.2006, EV & AR leg. ( EV).― 1 female: Selemdzhinskiy District, Byssa River 10 km below „Tyoplyi Klyuch” spa, 290 m a.s.l., near hut, 03.06.2007, EV & AR leg. ( EV).― 1 male: Selemdzhinskiy District, right side of Byssa River about 2 km up-stream of Kukuya Rill mouth, 310 m a.s.l., swamp near flood-plain lake: Ledum palustre , Vaccinium uliginosum , Salix sp. (bushes), Chamaedaphne calyculata, Spiraea spp., Rosa sp. , Poaceae gen. spp., Carex spp. , Rubus arcticus , Sphagnum spp. , etc: evening flight, 07.06.2007, EV & AR leg. ( EV).― 1 male: Selemdzhinskiy District, right side of Byssa River near „Tyoplyi Klyuch” spa, near crossing, 300 m a.s.l., evening flight, 16.06.2007, EV & AR leg. ( EV).― 2 males: Selemdzhinskiy District, Byssa River basin NW of „Tyoplyi Klyuch” spa, 300 m a.s.l., bracket-fungi on stubs and dead fallen trunks of Betula platyphylla , 21.06.2007, EV & AR leg. ( EV). ― JEWISH AUTONOMOUS AREA: 1 male, 1 female: Obluchenskiy District, SE of Radde, Dichun River basin, about 4 km up-stream of the mouth, canyon of right confluent, in cow dung, 08.08.1977, AR leg. ( EV).― 1 male:, Obluchenskiy District, SE of Radde, Dichun River, about 5 km up-stream of the mouth, fungi and leaf litter thereunder, 11.08.1977, AR leg. ( EV).― 2 males: Obluchenskiy District, SE of Radde, Amur River, Pompeyevka frontier post, fungus bait, 17.08.1977, AR leg. ( EV).― 5 males, 3 females: Obluchenskiy District, SE of Radde, Dichun River valley, about 3 km up-stream of the mouth, 06.08– 03.09.1978, V. V.Belov leg. ( EV). ― KHABAROVSK TERRITORY: 1ex: Komsomolskiy District, Kondon, 25.09.1957, O.N.Kabakov leg. ( ZIN).―1ex: upper course of Simka River, to NW of Khabarovsk, 04.10.1978, O.N.Kabakov leg. ( ZIN).―1ex: S Kukana, to NW of Khabarovsk, 07.10.1979, O.N.Kabakov leg. ( ZIN). ―4ex: Ussuri River basin, district of Bikin, Birskoye, 13.06– 10.07.1958, O.N.Kabakov leg. ( ZIN). ― MARITIME PROVINCE: 4 males: „42”, „ Tachinus nigerrimus? Solsky [Tichomirova det.]”, underside: „very close, to translate Luze! In ZIN – 1 female ” <In Russian.> ( ZMMU, A.L.Tichomirova collection).― 1 male: „27” ( ZMMU, A.L.Tichomirova collection).― SAKHALIN AREA: 1 male: Sakhalin Island, Chekhova Mt., in leaf litter, 28.07.1968, L.P.Molodova leg. ( EV).― 2 males, 2 females: S Kuriles, NE Kunashir Island, Zolotoy Rill, 22– 24.09.1981, O.N.Kabakov leg. ( ZIN).― 1 female: S Kuriles, Kunashir Island, Mendeleyevo, 21.06.1985, N.B.Nikitskiy leg. ( EV).― 1 male: S Kuriles, Kunashir Island, Tretyakovo, 15.07.1990, S. V.Kazantsev leg.― 1 male: S Kuriles, Kunashir Island, Ozernaya River valley, 120 m a.s.l., 43º52’N 145º28’E, 16.07.2008 K. V.Makarov leg. ( EV).

Additional material examined. MOSCOWAREA: 1 female: Istrinskiy District, near Pavlovskaya Sloboda , in forest, pitfalls, 13.06.1988, K. V. Makarov leg. ( EV).― KRASNOYARSK PROVINCE : 1 male, 2 females: Shushenskoye , pine forest, gill fungus, 30.07.1980, S.L.Yesyunin leg. (P.Durmanov collection, Perm) .

Remarks. T. sibiricus has been known from Austria ( Ullrich 1975), Slovenia ( Schülke 2003), Moscow Area ( Semenov 1998; original citation here), also from the Russian Far East (Ullrich l.c.; Schülke 1995; etc), E Siberia, Mongolia, N Korea (Ullrich l.c.), NE China (J. Li 1992, 1993), and Japan (L.-Z.Li l.c.). It is cited here for the Kuriles and the Sakhalin Island for the first time.

The species has been ignored or the Far Eastern distribution has been omitted in the Catalogue by Tichomirova (1973a), papers by Kryzhanovskiy et al. (1973), Molodova (1973), and Kurcheva (1977) (i.e. in the issues where the identifications by Tichomirova have been used) dealing with the material from the Russian Far East. At the same time, T. nigerrimus Solsky, 1864 , closely related to the species under discussion, has been mentioned in the articles listed. Recently I have found in the Far Eastern box of Tichomirova collection 5 males with her original numbered geographical labels; the whole series was provided with determinative label in Tichomirova’s hand: „ Tachinus nigerrimus? Solsky ”. All the specimens, as well as 1 female collected by Molodova on Sakhalin and deposited in my collection, proved to be good T. sibiricus . The material cited makes it possible to regard T. nigerrimus as a Caucasian species without amphipalaearctic disjunction in the range.