Platypsyllus castoris Ritsema, 1869

SAZHNEV, Alexey S. & BUDAEV, Fyodor A., 2020, First record of Platypsyllus castoris Ritsema, 1869 (Coleoptera: Leiodidae) from Siberia, Fragmenta Faunistica 63 (2), pp. 125-127 : 125-126

Platypsyllus castoris Ritsema, 1869

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Material examined. Only adults: 1♂, 2♀♀, Russia: Western Siberia, Altai Krai, Kytmanovsky Distr., env. Sosnovy Log vill., Kamenka River , on beaver, 23 Aug 2019, coll. F. Budaev, IBIW RAS ; 2♂♂, 5♀♀, same place, env. Staraya Taraba vill., Balakhcha River , on beaver, 27 July 2020, coll. F. Budaev, BPC .

Distribution. The species have Holarctic distribution. In North America species know from Canada, United States ( Peck, 2006), in Palaearctic Platypsyllus castoris recorded for Europe ( Belgium, Belarus, The Czech Republic, France, Germany, Latvia, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden and Switzerland) (Perreau 2015) and the European part of Russia, where the species is known from Voronezh ( Prokin & Kirejtshuk 2007), Rostov ( Arzanov et al. 2013) and Saratov ( Sazhnev et al. 2019) Oblasts.

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Fig. 1. Platypsyllus castoris Ritsema, 1869, male from Sosnovy Log vill, dorsal view. Photo by A. Sazhnev.