Chlaenius (Chlaenites) inderiensis Motschulsky, 1850

Kabak, I. I. & Liang, H. - B., 2021, An annotated list of the genus Chlaenius Bonelli, 1810 (Coleoptera: Carabidae) of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China, Far Eastern Entomologist 429, pp. 12-28 : 21-22

Chlaenius (Chlaenites) inderiensis Motschulsky, 1850

Chlaenius inderiensis: Semenov, 1888: 214 [“lac Lob-Nor dans le Turkestan Chinois”].

Chlaenius spoliatus var. inderiensis: Bates, 1890: 4 [“Yangihissar”].

Chlaenius (Chlaenites) inderiensis: Jacobson, 1906: 312 [“Kaschgaria“].

Chlaenius (Chlaenites) inderiensis: Csiki, 1931: 944 [“Kaschgar“].

Chlaenius tristis (non Schaller, 1783, erroneous determination): Hu & Huang, 2013: 70

[“Jimsar”].

MATERIAL EXAMINED. China: Xinjiang, Kara-Irtysh (= Ertix) River, Burqin Town,

47°41'35"N, 86°51'54"E, h= 410 m, 31. VII 2015, 1 ♂, leg. I.I. Kabak (cBK); Xinjiang A. R .,

Fukang City, Beishawo, 44°22.537'N, 87°52.786'E, h= 439 m, light trap, 6.VII 2010, 1 ♂, leg.

Lou Qiaozhe ( IOZ); Xinjiang, Tarim River , S of Shahyar Town, 40°56'53"N, 82°52'45"E ,

h= 960 m, 15.VII 2006, 1 ♂, 1 ♀, leg. I.I. Kabak (cBK); Turkest. sinens., Przewalsky, 9.III–

10.IV.1885, 1 ♂, 2 ♀ ( ZIN); Kashgaria, foot of Kara-teke to Yarkend-Darya, 10–22. VI.1889, 1

♂, 1 ♀, leg. Pevtzov ( ZIN); E Turkestan, Hotan, 19. VI.1890, 2 ♂, exp. of B. Grombczewsky

( ZIN).

DISTRIBUTION. Chlaenius inderiensis is known from the south-eastern part of Europe

(Kalmykia, Lower Volga, Dagestan), Western, Central (northern shore of the Lake Balkhash),

Southern (the Syr-Darja, Tshu, and Talas valleys), South-Eastern (the Ili valley, foothills of

Northern Tien Shan), Eastern (Lake Zaisan) Kasakhstan, Kirgizia (foothills of Western Tien

Shan), Turkmenia (the Karakum desert), Xinjiang and Mongolia (Kryzhanovskij et al., 1995;

Kirschenhofer, 2017). The species is also indicated from Tajikistan and Ukraine, the record from Tajikistan needs to be confirm (Mikhailov, 2013), that from Ukraine is wrong

(Putchkov, 2012). In Xinjiang, Ch. inderiensis occurs in the plains and foothills of wide area from the Kara-Irtysh (= Ertix) valley in the north to the Tarim Basin, including the Yarkend

River and Lake Lob-Nor in the south.

HABITAT. This species occurs on banks of rivers and lakes mostly on plains, often in foothills at elevations between 400 and 1000 m.