taxonID	type	description	language	source
03DB2D4F7D5D9C42FC6CFCB2DC2B99F2.taxon	materials_examined	Type species: Cantharis fulva Scopoli, 1763.	en	Kazantsev, S. V., Makarov, K. V. (2024): On the status and origin of the endemic to the South Urals soldier beetles (Coleoptera: Cantharidae). Russian Entomological Journal 33 (3): 348-353, DOI: 10.15298/rusentj.33.3.06, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/rusentj.33.3.06
03DB2D4F7D5D9C41FC4BFC04DD4D9883.taxon	description	Figs 1, 4 – 6.	en	Kazantsev, S. V., Makarov, K. V. (2024): On the status and origin of the endemic to the South Urals soldier beetles (Coleoptera: Cantharidae). Russian Entomological Journal 33 (3): 348-353, DOI: 10.15298/rusentj.33.3.06, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/rusentj.33.3.06
03DB2D4F7D5D9C41FC4BFC04DD4D9883.taxon	materials_examined	MATERIAL. Holotype, ♂, South Urals, Mt. M. Iremel, tundra VI, 30. VII. 1985 [V. Olschwang leg.]; ’ Rhagonycha atrovaria iremelica ssp. n. des. S. Kazantsev 1993 ’ (printed); ‘ Holotype’ (red rectangle) (ICM); paratypes, 4 ♂♂ and ♀, same labels, but ‘ Paratype’; 2 ♂♂ South Urals, Mt. M. Iremel, tundra V, 30. VII. 1985 [V. Olschwang leg.]; ’ Rhagonycha atrovaria iremelica ssp. n. des. S. Kazantsev 1993 ’ (printed); ‘ Paratype’ (red rectangle) (ICM).	en	Kazantsev, S. V., Makarov, K. V. (2024): On the status and origin of the endemic to the South Urals soldier beetles (Coleoptera: Cantharidae). Russian Entomological Journal 33 (3): 348-353, DOI: 10.15298/rusentj.33.3.06, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/rusentj.33.3.06
03DB2D4F7D5D9C41FC4BFC04DD4D9883.taxon	discussion	REMARKS. The examination of longer series of Rhagonycha atrovaria atrovaria Wittmer, 1971 in the course of preparation of a paper on the Siberian Rhagonycha Eschscholtz, 1833 [Kazantsev, 2023] demonstrated that the morphological peculiarities of Rhagonycha a. iremelica [1994] actually fall within the infraspecific variability of Rh. atrovaria. Therefore, Rhagonycha atrovaria iremelica Kazantsev, 1994, syn. n. is considered to be a younger synonym of the latter. The species is registered in East Siberia (Tuva, Transbaikalia) and the Far East (Primorskij Kraj), as well as in Kazakhstan and Mongolia [Kazantsev, 2011]. The indication of the species for Altai [Kazantsev, 2011] needs to be verified on additional material, as the only known specimen from the region (‘ Altai, Kurai’), identified as ‘ Rh. atrovaria ‘ (in ICM collection), seems to differ slightly in the shape of pronotum and some of the aedeagal structures. The same refers to the indication of Rh. atrovaria for Kazakhstan [Kazantsev, Brancucci, 2007; Kazantsev, 2011], as it is based on literature data and not confirmed by studied material. Thus, the South Urals patch appears to be separated from the nearest part of the distribution area of Rh. atrovaria by roughly 2,200 km, or 1,750 – 2,000 km, should the Altai and east Kazakhstan occurrence of Rh. atrovaria be confirmed. Notably, the species was found only in Maliy Iremel tundra, but not on Bolshoy Iremel, at the same altitude just some 2. 5 km away.	en	Kazantsev, S. V., Makarov, K. V. (2024): On the status and origin of the endemic to the South Urals soldier beetles (Coleoptera: Cantharidae). Russian Entomological Journal 33 (3): 348-353, DOI: 10.15298/rusentj.33.3.06, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/rusentj.33.3.06
03DB2D4F7D5F9C40FE8FFE8FDB9B9B9C.taxon	materials_examined	Type species: Cantharis nitidula Fabricius, 1792.	en	Kazantsev, S. V., Makarov, K. V. (2024): On the status and origin of the endemic to the South Urals soldier beetles (Coleoptera: Cantharidae). Russian Entomological Journal 33 (3): 348-353, DOI: 10.15298/rusentj.33.3.06, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/rusentj.33.3.06
03DB2D4F7D5F9C40FEC6FE13DB0C9FD3.taxon	description	Figs 2, 7.	en	Kazantsev, S. V., Makarov, K. V. (2024): On the status and origin of the endemic to the South Urals soldier beetles (Coleoptera: Cantharidae). Russian Entomological Journal 33 (3): 348-353, DOI: 10.15298/rusentj.33.3.06, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/rusentj.33.3.06
03DB2D4F7D5F9C40FEC6FE13DB0C9FD3.taxon	materials_examined	MATERIAL. Holotype, ♂, South Urals, Mt. B. Iremel, tundra, 23. VII. 1986 [V. Olschwang leg.]; ’ Silis olschwangi sp. n. des. S. Kazantsev 1991 ’ (printed); ‘ Holotype’ (red rectangle) (ICM); paratypes: ♂, South Urals, Mt. B. Iremel, 1. VIII. 1985 [V. Olschwang leg.]; ’ Silis olschwangi sp. n. des. S. Kazantsev 1991 ’ (printed); ‘ Paratype’ (red rectangle); ♂, South Urals, Mt. Iremel, VII. 1984 [V. Olschwang leg.]; ‘ Silis olschwangi sp. n. des. S. Kazantsev 1991 ’ (printed); ‘ Paratype’ (red rectangle) (ICM).	en	Kazantsev, S. V., Makarov, K. V. (2024): On the status and origin of the endemic to the South Urals soldier beetles (Coleoptera: Cantharidae). Russian Entomological Journal 33 (3): 348-353, DOI: 10.15298/rusentj.33.3.06, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/rusentj.33.3.06
03DB2D4F7D5F9C40FEC6FE13DB0C9FD3.taxon	discussion	REMARKS. This South Urals Autosilis species seems to be rare, as even the intensive collecting in its exclusive biotopes was yielding just one specimen a year, one in 1984, another in 1985 and the third in 1986. There are actually two Autosilis species distributed in relatively close proximity to A. olschwangi: the European A. nitidula (Fabricius, 1792), registered in Ryazan and Yaroslavl Oblasts west of Iremel, as well as in Tomsk Oblast east of it, and A. dzungarica (Kazantsev, 1994) known only from the Saur and Tarbagatai mountain ranges in Kazakhstan. The shortest distance between the distribution areas of A. olschwangi and A. nitidula is thus roughly 1,000 km in the west and 1,600 km in the east, while that between A. olschwangi and A. dzungarica is about 2,000 km. The remaining six Autosilis species of the Russian Federation and adjacent territories are come across much farther away in the east: in East Siberia [A. bianchii (Barovskij, 1926); A. jacutica (Barovskij, 1926); A. tuvensis (Kazantsev, 2008); A. urjanhaica (Kazantsev, 1997)] and the Far East [A. amurensis (Kazantsev, 2008) and A. triimpressa (Pic, 1926)] [Kazantsev, 1994, 1997, 2008, 2011]. The division of the genus into species groups, however, is yet to be carried out: it is therefore difficult to say what the closest relatives of A. olschwangi are.	en	Kazantsev, S. V., Makarov, K. V. (2024): On the status and origin of the endemic to the South Urals soldier beetles (Coleoptera: Cantharidae). Russian Entomological Journal 33 (3): 348-353, DOI: 10.15298/rusentj.33.3.06, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/rusentj.33.3.06
03DB2D4F7D5F9C40FE96F9FEDBFF9CCF.taxon	materials_examined	Type species: Malthinus marginatus Latreille, 1806.	en	Kazantsev, S. V., Makarov, K. V. (2024): On the status and origin of the endemic to the South Urals soldier beetles (Coleoptera: Cantharidae). Russian Entomological Journal 33 (3): 348-353, DOI: 10.15298/rusentj.33.3.06, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/rusentj.33.3.06
03DB2D4F7D5F9C40FF2CF943DA9899D9.taxon	description	Figs 3, 8, 9.	en	Kazantsev, S. V., Makarov, K. V. (2024): On the status and origin of the endemic to the South Urals soldier beetles (Coleoptera: Cantharidae). Russian Entomological Journal 33 (3): 348-353, DOI: 10.15298/rusentj.33.3.06, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/rusentj.33.3.06
03DB2D4F7D5F9C40FF2CF943DA9899D9.taxon	materials_examined	MATERIAL. Holotype, ♂, South Urals, Mt. Iremel, VII. 1984 [V. Olschwang leg.]; ‘ Malthodes trifurcatus uralicus ssp. n. des. S. Kazantsev 1994 ’ (printed); ‘ Holotype’ (red rectangle) (ICM).	en	Kazantsev, S. V., Makarov, K. V. (2024): On the status and origin of the endemic to the South Urals soldier beetles (Coleoptera: Cantharidae). Russian Entomological Journal 33 (3): 348-353, DOI: 10.15298/rusentj.33.3.06, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/rusentj.33.3.06
03DB2D4F7D5F9C40FF2CF943DA9899D9.taxon	discussion	REMARKS. Malthodes uralicus is the only Russian representative of the genus Malthodes which has bifurcate lobes of the ultimate sternite on each side (Fig. 8). Such structure of terminalia is characteristic of the M. trifurcatus group, which includes three species: M. trifurcatus, the most widespread, registered from France in the West to Slovakia, Hungary and Serbia in the East, M. penninus from Austria, Italy and Switzerland and M. atratus from Spain, France and Italy. Back in the nineties, when M. trifurcatus uralicus was described, M. trifurcatus included two subspecies, with rather differently organised bifurcation of lateral lobes of the ultimate sternite [Wittmer, 1970]. For this reason the new taxon, although also differing in the bifurcation, was considered to represent yet another subspecies of M. trifurcatus, whereas its aedeagus was not examined. The examination of the above mentioned structures has revealed that the shape of terminal sternite in M. uralicus (Fig. 8) is quite different from that of all members of the M. trifurcatus group: its inner lobes are noticeably shorter and more robust compared to M. trifurcatus and other members of the group [Liberti, 2011] and its lateral lobes are distinctly shorter than those of M. trifurcatus (Fig. 10). The aedeagus of M. uralicus is characterised by the rounded distally basal part of the median lobe (Fig. 9) compared to distinctly emarginate one in M. trifurcatus (Fig. 11) and other members of the group. Therefore, as there is little doubt that Malthodes uralicus Kazantsev, 1995, stat. n. is not conspecific with any of the members of the M. trifurcatus group, it is raised to the species level.	en	Kazantsev, S. V., Makarov, K. V. (2024): On the status and origin of the endemic to the South Urals soldier beetles (Coleoptera: Cantharidae). Russian Entomological Journal 33 (3): 348-353, DOI: 10.15298/rusentj.33.3.06, URL: https://doi.org/10.15298/rusentj.33.3.06
