Aleochara (Xenochara) gontarenkoi, Assing, 2009

Assing, Volker, 2018, On the Aleochara subgenera Ceranota and Xenochara. IV. A revision of types, a new species, and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1), pp. 129-148 : 140

Aleochara (Xenochara) gontarenkoi ASSING, 2009

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Russia: 6 exs., Ul'yanovskaya Oblast, Radishchevskiy Rayon, Vyazovka , marmot nest, 2.V.1993, leg. Isaev ( ZMUC, cAss) ; 2 exs., same data, but 1.VIII.1996 ( ZMUC) ; 1 ex., Ul'yanovskaya Oblast, Novospasskiy Rayon, Marjevka , gopher nest, 6.V.2000, leg. Isaev ( ZMUC) ; 2 exs., same data, but 5.V.2000 ( ZMUC) ; 1 ex., Saratovskaya Oblast, Ozinskiy Rayon , 6 km SW Sinegorskiy, 51°17'N; 49°48'E, 2.V.2009, leg. Kovalev (cAss). Ukraine: 2♂♂, 1♀, Kharkiv Oblast, Krasnograd district, Pitschanka env., steppe meadow, pitfall near hole of Spermophilus suslicus, V.1994, leg. Novikov (cGon) ; 1♀, same data, but IV.1995 (cGon) .

C o m m e n t: Confirmed records of this recently described species were previously known only from gopher nests in Ukraine and eastern Anatolia ( ASSING 2009a, 2011a). The above specimens represent the first records from Russia, most of them were collected from marmot nests.