Poecilus (Derus) advena (Quensel, 1806)

Muilwijk, Jan, Seiedy, Marjan & Wrase, David W., 2021, Contribution to the knowledge of Carabidae in Iran with the descriptions of five new taxa, proposing of four synonyms and providing of nine new records (Insecta: Coleoptera), Zootaxa 5067 (1), pp. 55-81 : 66

Poecilus (Derus) advena (Quensel, 1806)

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Poecilus (Ancholeus) iranicus (Morvan, 1974) syn. n.

Examined type. 1 ♂, Paratype of Pseudopedius iranicus Morvan, 1974 with labels: “Varamine / 19–28.v.1947 / Mirz” // “ Pseudopedius iranicus Morv ” // red label “ Paratype ”. HMIM.

Additional examined material: Iran: 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, East Azerbaijan, Moghan , 17.viii.1967, Daman leg., HMIM ; 2 ♀♀, Khorasan, Sarakhs, Tajan , 250 m, 17.viii.1993, Ebra & Badii leg., HMIM . Ukraine: 1 ♂, without data. CJM . Georgia: 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, Transcaucasus, Kumisi nr. Tbilisi, 3–24.vi.1987, Wrase & Schülke leg., CDW . Kazakhstan: 1 ♀, Aksai, Oblast Uralsk , 3.vii.–11.ix.1989, H. Wandsleb leg., CDW .

Comparative notes. Morvan described Pseudopedius iranicus in 1974 ( Fig. 6 ). Subsequently, Pseudopedius Seidlitz, 1887 was synonymized with Ancholeus Dejean, 1828 and P. iranicus was listed by Bousquet, 2017 as Poecilus (Ancholeus) iranicus . Morvan mentioned in the description of this species that antennomere 3 is not keeled. Species of the subgenus Ancholeus are characterized by the presence of a keel on antennomere 3, while species of the related subgenus Derus Motschulsky, 1850 are characterized by the absence of this keel. A comparison of a paratype of P. iranicus with P. (Derus) advena showed no difference between these taxa, hence P. iranicus is synonymous with P. advena .

Distribution. Transcaucasia, the Southern Russian Plain, Ciscaucasia, the uplands of Armenia, the plains of Kazakhstan, and the plains of Middle Asia to the Altais-Sayan Mt. Land. ( Kryzhanovskij et al. 1995). The species also occurs in Ukraine and Georgia, both countries were not mentioned in Löbl & Löbl 2017.

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FIGURE 6. Poecilus advena (as paratype of P. iranicus) habitus, scale: 10 mm.