Proeremochorus Legalov, 2010

Legalov, Andrei A., 2023, A new species of the genus Eremochorus Zaslavskij, 1962 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from Central Altai (Russia) with systematics remarks, Ecologica Montenegrina 65, pp. 76-85 : 82

Subgenus Proeremochorus Legalov, 2010

calvus Zaslavskij, 1966 – Kazakhstan: Abai Region mongolicus (Motschulsky, 1860) –– Russia: Tyva Republic, Khabarovskii Krai: Bureya Range ( Zaslavskij 1966); Mongolia: “Northern Mongolia ”, “Khangai Mountains”

= Hypera johanni Reitter, 1896

= Macrotarsus mysticus Petri, 1901

sinuaticollis (Faust, 1890) – Russia: Altai Republic, Tyva Republic; “ Northern Mongolia ”

subater Zaslavskij, 1966 – Mongolia: Bayankhongor (Gobi Altai)

zaslavskii Korotyaev, 1995 – Russia: Tyva Republic

The genus Eremochorus includes 48 species distributed in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Mongolia, Northern China, South Siberia, and the Russian Far East ( Fig. 3 ) ( Gebler 1833; Schoenherr 1834, 1842; Motschulsky 1860a, 1860b; Capiomont 1868; Faust 1883, 1885, 1890a, 1890b; Stierlin & Faust 1883; Reitter 1896; Petri 1901, 1903, 1907; Suvorov 1912; Zaslavskij 1962, 1966, 1971, 1978; Bajtenov 1974, 1982; Korotyaev 1995; Legalov 2007, 2011, 2012, 2021, 2022; Alonso-Zarazaga et al. 2023). The Mugodzhar Hills of Kazakhstan for E. barsevskisi is the westernmost find ( Legalov 2021), Barshino of Karaganda Region for E. steppensis and Bureya Range for E. mongolicus are the northern finds ( Zaslavskij 1966), south of Primorskii Krai for E. belokobyskyi is the north-eastern find (Legalov 2011), Beijing for E. chinensis is south-eastern find (Faust, 1890). This genus is absent from Iran ( Legalov et al. 2010). The diversity center is located in East and South-East Kazakhstan. Eremochorus concinnus (as Hypera praecomatus ) was recorded from the Pleistocene of Western Ukraine ( Lomnicki 1894) and Eremochorus steppensis from Novosibirskaya Oblast’ (Suzun-1, 24.893 –25.966 cal BP) ( Gurina et al. 2023).

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Figure 3. Recent area of Eremochorus spp.