Stylodipus telum (Lichtenstein, 1823) . Naturhist. Anhang (or Eversmann's Reise Orenburg), p. 120.

TYPE LOCALITY: Kazakhstan, steppe along NE shore of Aral Sea (Ognev, 1963b:303) .

DISTRIBUTION: E Ukraine, N Caucasus, N and W Turkmenistan, W Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan (Kuznetsov, 1965; Shenbrot, 1991b); E to N Xinjiang, N Gansu, and Nei Mongol, China (see Chen and Wang, 1985; Ma et al., 1987; Mi et al., 1990; Qian et al., 1965; Shou, 1962; and Zheng and Zhang, 1990; but see comment below).

SYNONYMS: amankaragai, birulae, falzfeini, halticus, karelini, nastjukovi, turovi, proximus (see Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, 1951; and Shenbrot, 1991 b).

COMMENTS: Reviewed by Ognev (1963b). Subspecific revision contributed by Shenbrot (1991b). Detailed habitat data provided by Naumov and Lobachev (1975). Karyotype provided by Vorontsov et al. (19694). Because S. andrewsi is considered a synonym of S. telum by some workers, some of the records of S. telum from China may represent S. andrewsi . See comments under S. andrewsi and S. sungorus .