Chlaenius (s. str.) flavicornis Fischer von Waldheim, 1842

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 : 22-23

Chlaenius (s. str.) flavicornis Fischer von Waldheim, 1842

Chlaenius flavicornis: Heyden, 1880: 22 “Dsungaria…”.

Chlaenius (s. str., the festivus -group) flavicornis: Kirschenhofer, 2004b: 14 , Abb. 22, 87,

“Kirgistan [err.]: Kuldscha, Oberer Ili”; “Kuldja”.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Boro Horo Shan, Jining, Ining-H-Sien, 44°06'N, 81°56'E ,

26–31. VII 1991 , 1 ♂, leg. Snížek (cDW); Xinjiang, Kash River , Nilki env., 43°46'48''N,

82°29'05''E, h= 1025 m, 15.VII 2017, 2 ♀, 5 ex., leg. I.I. Kabak (cBK); China, Xinjiang ,

Tekes River , Tekes env., 43°11'38"N, 81°50'20"E, h= 1185 m, 14.VII 2012, 1 ♀, leg. I.I .

Kabak (cBK); Narat Mts. ~ 52 km SE. Tokkuztara, S of Muhur Vill., 43°11.6'N, 82°43.7'E,

h= 1185 m, riverbank, 4.VIII 2016, 1 ♂, leg D. Milko ( IBB); Xinjiang, Kunges River , N

Kunges, 43°31'12"N, 83°15'22"E, h= 840 m, 15.VII 2012, 1 ♂, 3 ♀, 2 ex., leg. I.I. Kabak

(cBK); Xinjiang, Xinyuan county, Narat township, bank of Kunes River , 43.3156°N ,

84.0167°E, h= 1381 m, 10.VIII 2018, 5 ♂, 7 ♀, leg. H.L. Shi & G.Y. Yang ( IOZ); Xinjiang ,

Tchabuhe River , Kunges env., 43°24'56"N, 83°14'43"E, h= 945 m, 15.VII 2012, 1 ♀, 3 ex. ,

leg. I.I. Kabak (cBK).

DISTRIBUTION. Chlaenius flavicornis is endemic to Middle Asia. This species is distributed from plains and foothills of the Gissaro-Darvaz, Pamiro-Alai, Southern Balkhash

Area, Dzhungarian Alatau and ex-Soviet part of the Tien Shan (Kryzhanovskij et al., 1995;

Kirschenhofer, 2017). The records for Western Kazakhstan and Western Siberia are wrong,

those for Turkmenistan need to be confirm. In Xinjiang, this species is known only in the upper

Ili valley: the Kash, Kunges and Tekes valleys.

HABITAT. This species inhabits banks of the rivers in plains, foothills and mountains at elevations between 400 and 1400 m.