Ebaeus rufipes Morawitz, 1861

Tshernyshev, Sergei E., Dudko, Roman Yu., Gurina, Anna A. & Legalov, Andrei A., 2021, First record of soft-winged flower beetles (Coleoptera, Malachiidae) in a late Pleistocene deposit from West Siberia with a review of known Quaternary data, Acta Biologica Sibirica 7, pp. 1-19 : 1

Ebaeus rufipes Morawitz, 1861

Material.

Russia, Republic of Altai: Mountain Altai, Kosh-Agach district , 6 km NE of Ortolyk village, valley of Tedtuyaryk river , sweeping on poplars, 3.VII.2003, S.E. Tshernyshev leg. - ♂, ♀; (Fig. 4a, b ) .

Distribution.

Russia: South Siberian mountains.

Habitat.

Collected from poplar and elm leaves and stems near mountain river.

Notes.

The species is similar to that extracted from sub-fossil deposit, but differs in its smaller size and weaker green metallic lustre to dark colouration of surface.

Figures

Figure 4. Ebaeus spp. upper side (a-f) and sub-fossil fragments from the Ustyanka- 1 (g-k): a, b, E. rufipes; c, d, E. ukokus; e, f, E. pedicularius atrotibialis; g-k, Ebaeus sp.: pronotum (g), left elyton (h), right elytra (i, j, k). a, c, e - males, b, d, f, h, i, j, k - females.