Aleochara (Xenochara) lepidoptera BERNHAUER , 1901

Assing, V., 2009, On the taxonomy and zoogeography of some Palaearctic Aleochara species of the subgenera Xenochara M & R and Rheochara M & R (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 59 (1), pp. 33-101 : 82-83

Aleochara (Xenochara) lepidoptera BERNHAUER, 1901

Aleochara (Isochara) lepidoptera BERNHAUER, 1901: 463 .

Material examined:

Turkey: 1 ex., Gümüşhane, ca. 12 km NE Gümüşhane, ca. 40°31'N, 39°33'E, 1300 m, 12.VI.1998, leg. Solodovnikov (cAss) ; 5 exs., Erzurum, 30-45 km NE Erzurum, Dumludağı , ca. 40°08'N, 41°44'E, 2200- 2500 m, 14.VI.1998, leg. Solodovnikov (cAss) .

Tajikistan: 3 exs., Pamir Alai , Hissar Mts. , Adshuk cleft near Warsob, 1200 m, 1.-3.VII.1990, leg. Schülke & Wrase (cAss, cSch) .

Comment:

This species was originally described as a variety of A. moesta GRAVENHORST, 1802 , based on material from the Caucasus region ( BERNHAUER 1901). The previously known distribution included also western and eastern Siberia, Mongolia, and Iran ( LIKOVSKÝ 1972, 1981; SMETANA 2004). The above specimens represent the first records from Turkey and Tajikistan. In the locality in Erzurum province, northeastern Anatolia, A. lepidoptera was collected together with the closely related A. moesta ( ASSING 2007a) .