Calyptopsis caucasica (Kraatz, 1865)

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Choristopsis caucasica Kraatz, 1865: 228 (original description).

Calyptopsis caucasica: BOGATCHEV (1938): 120 (faunistic data); KASZAB (1968): 453 (faunistic data); ABDURAKHMANOV & NABOZHENKO (2011): 177 (taxonomy).

Calyptopsis morawitzi Faust, 1877: 37 (original description). REITTER (1900): 131 (synonymy).

Type locality. Calyptopsis caucasica: ‘Caucaso’; C. morawitzi: ‘In der Nähe des Goktshai See [environs of Sevan (former Gokcha) Lake]’.

Type material examined. Calyptopsis caucasica: SYNTYPE: 1 spec., unsexed, ‘Caucase // Syntypus // Choristopsis / caucasica / mihi / Cauc. Mnizech // Coll. Kraatz // Calyptopsis caucasica Kraatz type det. Schuster.’ (SDEI).

Calyptopsis morawitzi Faust, 1877 . LECTOTYPE (designated by ABDURAKHMANOV & NABOZHENKO 2011): unsexed, ‘Goktschei / Morawitz // Calyptopsis morawitzi Fst. // Calyptopsis caucasica Kr. A. Bogačev det. // Zoological Institute RAS / St.Petersburg // Calyptopsis caucasica det. M. Nabozhenko // Lectotypus / Calyptopsis morawitzi Faust / des. Nabozhenko 2011.’ (ZIN).

Additional material examined. ARMENIA: 2 spec., ‘Armenia’; 1 spec., ‘Echmiatzin [now Vagarshapat] / 14.V [Cyrillic label]’; 2 spec., ‘Echmiatzin [now Vagarshapat] / 9.v.1976 / from Russian Ent.Society [old Cyrillic label]’; 9 spec., ‘Echmiatzin [now Vagarshapat] / Erivan Province / Eichler / 9 iii 916’; 1 spec., ‘Erivan’ [now Yerevan] / Rud’kovskaya 906 [Cyrillic label]’; 1 spec., ‘Kaukasus / Erivan [now Yerevan] / Dobrowljanskyi’; 1 spec., ‘ Erivan [now Yerevan] / Cauc. Dobrowljanskyi’; 1 spec., ‘ Erivan [now Yerevan] / 6-iii-1910 / Katjkov [Cyrillic label]’; 1 spec. ‘ Erivan [Cyrillic labels]; 1 spec., ‘Etschmiadzin [now Vagarshapat] / 9 v // coll. Artobolevsky’; 1 spec., ‘Sardarab [now Armavir] // k. Christoff’; 1 spec., ‘Echmiatzin [now Vagarshapat] // Brandt / 1.vii.79 [1879] [Cyrillic labels]’; 2 spec., ‘Sardarabad / Caucas. / Fisch // Gnathosia rugipennis Fald // Sardarabad [now Armavir] / 1.vii.75 [1875] [Cyrillic label]’. AZERBAIJAN: 2 spec.: ‘Ordubat [now Nakhichevan, Ordubad] / 24.vi.1911 / Satunin [Cyrillic label]’; 1 spec., ‘Caucasus / Araxis / Djulfa // Mus Armen / № 17-24’; 1 spec., ‘Caucasus / Araxesthal [now Nakhichevan,Arax valley] / Leder, Reitter’; 4 spec., ‘Disar near Ordubad / Nakhich dist. / Znoiko 20.vii.933’. IRAN: 1 spec., ‘Tavriz / Persia / 6 iv 14 / Andrievsky [Cyrillic label]’; 12 spec., ‘Tavriz / Persia / 21 iii 14 [1914] / Andrievsky [Cyrillic label]’. All specimens deposited in ZIN.

Distribution. Armenia, Azerbaijan (Nakhichevan), Iran (Tabriz), Eastern Turkey: Van (Özalp), Iğdır (Tuzluca) provinces. Occurrence in Kars Province (ABDURAKHMANOV & NABOZHENKO 2011) is wrongly mentioned for this species.